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Broken Business Models

There's more truth than hyperbole in this observation, as can be demonstrated by comparing the profit margins of a random selection of suppliers to a like number of airlines over, say, a five-year period. Unless a Ryanair, Singapore Airlines or Southwest Airlines ends up in the airline draw, it probably won't even be close.

There's more truth than hyperbole in this observation, as can be demonstrated by comparing the profit margins of a random selection of suppliers to a like number of airlines over, say, a five-year period. Unless a Ryanair, Singapore Airlines or Southwest Airlines ends up in the airline draw, it probably won't even be close. To a large degree, it's the nature of the beast. The companies that earn their money selling products to airlines would never accept the level of losses incurred by ...

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