It is fashionable to analyze aviation and all events in the light of the economy. It needs to be tried, but this seems to me erroneous :
1 Aviation has NEVER been a source of profit for airlines.
2. But a lot of money circulates, and attracts gangsters, who use all their dishonesty up to recover.
3. The economy itself is now completely distorted by incompetent financers, and finance is unrepresentative of reality.
4. The civilian and military aviation is primarily strategic, leading politics and managers to denigrate the laws of physics, and to sacrifice justice for her
and sometimes AF447...