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The article is pretty light on the exact mechanical execution of what "Uber of air travel" means. I'm also under the impression that unlike taxi and hotels, air
by NhanH 11y ago
The article is pretty light on the exact mechanical execution of what "Uber of air travel" means. I'm also under the impression that unlike taxi and hotels, airlines actually operate with razor-thin marhin. And unless one has an innovation that can actually lower the fundamental operating/ logistics cost (eg. Southwest), skirting around the law won't be of much used here.
- dylanjermiah 11y agoThe private flight business is worth more than the public flight business.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoThere was a wonderful story I read 15 or 20 years ago and unfortunately can't find a source for now, that went something like this: Some random entrepreneur had made a bunch of money by buying textile plants and streamlining them, eliminating inefficiencies, canning redundant workers, so on and so forth. Flush with success, he decided he wanted to branch out into other industries that weren't making enough money and needed to hear his gospel of efficiency, and bought a bunch of fiction publishing houses. He quickly discovered that he couldn't do shit with them, because publishing is a business with razor-edge margins, and the publishers that weren't run with machine-like precision had all gone out of business already. If you want to "disrupt" the airline business, invent anti-gravity. Until you do that, all your clever business ideas aren't going to change the fact that air travel requires a fuckton of expensive fuel per passenger.