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Re:Air France Denied My Delay Compensation, So I Challenged ... by bilvar on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:35AM (#36628452)
The reason is that regulation has killed competition and the market has reached an equilibrium where margins are razor thin.
Re:Air France Denied My Delay Compensation, So I Challenged ... by waihtis on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:56AM (#36628610)
I think it's not a margins issue - plenty of good money making machines doing this - but definitely a not-enough-competition issue.
Re:Air France Denied My Delay Compensation, So I Challenged ... by sfn42 on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:00AM (#36631888)
There is competition and they're all the same. It's a capitalism issue. Less expenses = more profits and that's literally the only thing that matters.

Corporations only do things for one of two reasons - money or regulation. If they don't have to and it doesn't make money, they don't do it.

Re:Air France Denied My Delay Compensation, So I Challenged ... by bilvar on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:43AM (#36632477)
Nope, there used to be a lot more airlines, all now absorbed or merged to a few select ones. It’s not a profit issue, but their ability to survive.
Re:Air France Denied My Delay Compensation, So I Challenged ... by waihtis on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:34AM (#36641923)
what is your alternative system to capitalism?
Re:Air France Denied My Delay Compensation, So I Challenged ... by sfn42 on Saturday July 08, 2023 @06:22AM (#36643053)
Never claimed I had one. I just don't think the current system works very well.

CEOs are overpaid and have too little liability. Corporations happily break the law and in many cases the only consequence is that they have to pay what they should have paid in the first place. Or a slap on the wrist fine that's less than they earned from the crimes.

Get rid of corruption and enforce laws properly would be a good start.

Re:Air France Denied My Delay Compensation, So I Challenged ... by waihtis on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:52PM (#36646849)
Capitalism is just a system where industry is own by private entities and is for-profit. Corruption or laws have nothing per se to do with capitalism.