that I don't see how the manufacturers would have suffered from those deals.
Cause there are certainly a lot of people who gave up their flying or never started an ops of their own, but bought a FRACTION of an airplane.
Granted, there might be some who would never bought their own, still I think the ratio is more likely to be unfavorable for the manufacturers. Certainly NJ will not pay the same than a one or two airplane customer. So if you have to sell 10 aircraft to make the same margin that you could make on, say, 2 to individual clients... and as I said before, having to rely on one more or less giant operator instead of dozens of one time clients would give me sleepless nights.
I could be totally wrong btw.