Yes. The poaching sweet-shop owner has become a mean-and-nasty gamekeeper, but in trying to purge his estate of other hunters, he has affected the natural state of things. That's where Pandora comes in.
The airline industry is now where IT was about twenty years ago. Just when it looked like Microsoft and Apple would take over the world, the dying Mozilla got a new lease of life, two new kids appeared on the block and built up a huge, shared following, and the buying public suddenly realised that they could demand more of their IT suppliers and get it.
The great wave of innovation in IT by teenage, garage-based individuals will be mimiced in the travel/aviation industry and EASA/FAA/BA/RA/AF won't be able to do anything about it. There is a tendency on this board to ridicule the ideas of bedroom entrepreneurs, but they and their peers will be paying for travel for the next forty years and if they're saying "what we need is ..." then we ignore them at our peril.
Last edited by CelticRambler; 2nd March 2013 at 08:33.