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I don't think airlines make any real money from the flights.
Grocery stores in the US have thin margins too 🤡
Somehow lidl and aldi are able to enter US market and compete on price anyway.
Sounds like a skill issue tbh
Aldi's is the shit
Esp if you are low income American...
Imagine instead of slop dollar store, you have access to a place that sells actual food...
But American clown capitalism can't supply the poors with food 🤡
They do in Europe. And the flight is somehow still cheaper.
But in the US the doors fall off the plane, the ticket is overpriced, but they somehow still lose money which they have to recoup by selling airmiles to credit cards and your data to ICE.
There is a lot I really don't get about the US flight industry. Only explanation that makes sense is lack of competition due excessive consolidation with antitrust asleep at the wheel.
They have "thin margins" because the C suite charges about 50k per email sent. Fucking parasites.
Parasites for sure but...
Delta has 60 billions revenue.
Unless the C suite earns a couple billion per person, that's not what's preventing it from flying planes profitably.
Please notice I said real money. Of course they make some money from the tickets, but the highest number I could find is 60% of revenue, and you have to calculate that it is a hyper-regulated seasonal industry.
I have heard many times the claim that they couldn't break even based on ticket price alone.
It is also possible that this was true once, but not anymore, especially given how consolidated, anticompetitive, and therefore overpriced, that industry has become.
And they receive how many subsidies? Would be unviable without massive public infrastructure? Without air traffic control? How many bailouts has the industry received?
It's practically a socialist institution at this point, can we not just pull that bandaid and either nationalize it or cut the subsidies all together? Not to mention the carbon impact of so many flights all the godamn time is having.
I am talking about Europe now:
we need trains. We need to unify the rail systems (rail width and electrical tensions) and the ticket systems. Europe could be easily served using a network of night train routes.
I think there should be way more political discourse about rail in the EU, but, for example in Italy, airports have been used as electoral campaigning devices.