Originally Posted by
Richard Dangle
I don't know if it is due to poor management, CEOs stealing money in the form of bonuses, poor internet integration, poor government, lack of advertising, or something else.
Or possibly a global industry that has created an unstable monster in its desire to get the biggest number of people possible airborne, for the lowest possible cost?
Or is that unthinkable hereabouts?
I think you are spot on. Add to this the fact that the principal industry service providers (airports, atco, fuel, plane manufacturers) are effectively unregulated monopolies who will attempt to suck the last drop from even a viable business, and will pull a weak one under in no time. It would be a very different (and interesting) landscape if all these service providers would get a fixed percentage of the fare paid rather than a flat amount that they determine themselves.