US airlines don’t want you to know this🤫💰

[camf]

Well highlighted. This also applies to the US automotive industry, aviation industry, energy, farming, banking, etc etc etc from all levels of the US government. And then there are state tax breaks or exemptions for businesses to set up in that state, ie Boeing moving 787 production.

[humaidalblooshi]

Thank you 🤲🏼😭 finally someone exposed them and talked about it, do not blame others for your failure

[JonGreen_UK]

Let's not forget the Fly America Act, which mandates US Govt employees and dependants travelling on official business to use US flag carrier airlines unless unavoidable. That's a MAHOOSIVE siphoning of taxpayer cash into the US airline industry, and very hard not to dress as barely disguised subsidy.

[DarkSideBrownie]

Privatizing profits and socializing losses

[BDFTP]

A decent chunk of that is via Civil Reserve Air Fleet. The military pays the domestic carriers for preferential cargo and passenger service, and have been called up to provide logistics support for deployments. US carriers are an important cog in military logistics.

[Charlesfernandez]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
The truth is, why try? If you don’t have to.
Anyone remembers when JetBlue was the industry disruptor?

[Oceanbreeze]

Agree, some of it could be poor effort of staff, stress, too much focus on cost cutting, not sure but there has to be a solution to the problems.

[Thething]

Wow I didn’t expect to see this this early

[lzh]

& then I once saw a conservative blog (called Nikita I think?) advocating that Europe's rail should be more American (i.e. passenger rail is for subways only while long distance rail shd be onlu for freight) as it claimed that aviation has higher load factors & profits thannlong distance rail while supposedly not being subsidised. But then I remember there's also the Essential Air Service. The blog also argued that coaches/buses are more efficient than trains as the former is lighter per passenger carried. The former has more rolling resistance though

[skylineXpert]

This Ryanair deal doesnt surprise me
(Indirect state aid)

[ThomasHamed]

Is it really fair to single out the Essential Air Service, though? It only funds select U.S. routes, is not a major component of any airlines’ revenue (except maybe Alaska Airlines), and really many communities would not survive without EAS.

[emilytaylor]

The fact that the Queensland government is giving money to American Airlines when Australia has had 1 out of 5 airlines go bankrupt this year and 1 that’s on the way to bankruptcy is ridiculous

[youtubeprofile]

Not just the airlines, hotels in the US are abysmal too compared to hotels in Asia. Who can fix these problems?

[NicolasTRANG]

Thanks for stating this. But now, people will say service and product are poor because of the government meddling in...

[averygrau]

My most hated industry! US airlines are awful, and not held accountable for anything.

[Animegami]

All imma say is, gov bailing out airlines is the norm lol.

[jk]

$100 billion yes—but how much of it was repaid? Like some but not all of the Covid era loans were repaid so they could remove the government as a shareholder

[AquarianQueen]

Wow! They received financial help from the government but they still went ahead and price gouged their fares to make more of a profit!!!

[srirams]

Truth prevails & hypocrites all the way teaching other what to do rather getting better with thier 3rd world country outdated 20+ year old aircraft products😂

[bobman]

We need to nationalize our airline industry