anybody who can explain this from the reuters article? Why would this be the benchmark for potential problems in an airline. There is much more than only debt/earning ratios. What would be a problematic ratio and what is the ratio for Norwegian and flybe just before it went under.
A three-month shutdown would inflate Air France-KLM's net debt to 7.7 times earnings, Citi calculates, and swell Lufthansa's multiple to 12.4.