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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by atlasunshrugged on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:13PM (#22594718)
I'll be fascinated to see which airlines make it out of this alive (with and without a bailout) and the long term repercussions. Seems like the cheapo airlines will probably go under relatively quickly because they're on razor thin margins but even United and anyone with global route exposure is going to get hurt really badly by this.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by Svip on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:21PM (#22594850)
I am starting to think that only the partly/fully state-owned airlines will make it out alive.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by wp381640 on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:41PM (#22595147)
Airlines are too important to the economy - plenty of them will get gov guarantees / bailouts
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by sushikokk on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:52PM (#22595290)
Yes, interesting. Hope Norwegian survive. Before Norwegian I often paid like 350$ for a trip to Oslo (40 minutes). It was only one single provider, SAS. After Norwegian arrived usually around 100, often 50.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by CydeWeys on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:18PM (#22594784)
Forget about just global routes, all or nearly all routes might be grounded soon enough. It would be the sensible thing to do.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by PeterisP on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:28PM (#22594957)
To me it feels that the deciding factor will be in the differences of how different airlines have structured their airplane ownership/rentals/leasing/whatever; for some airlines downsizing to a smaller number of planes will be much cheaper than others.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by fulafel on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:03PM (#22596213)
It's basically a doomed industry in the medium to long term (unless humanity collectively decides to fly straight into a wall wrt global CO2 emissions). Any politician using tax money to prop this up is acting irresponsibly and unethically.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by spaceandshit on Monday March 16, 2020 @04:29PM (#22597292)
However, people need to travel. And they will travel. Calling it a doomed industry is bogus.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by fulafel on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:11AM (#22601916)
There is a demand for air travel obviously but no absolute need. We don't have to stop it completely, just most of it.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by kzrdude on Monday March 16, 2020 @02:11PM (#22595527)
With all the european countries closing their borders on a small continent, it's pretty easy to guess that the european airlines will be hit worst. They don't have much domestic traffic to fall back to.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by pkaye on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:26PM (#22594933)
I think the airlines from the middle east might survive since they are propped up by the state. For example Emirates and Etihad. And of course China is in good shape to prop up their own airlines.
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