Try pressing space/enter. Though to be fair, it's now on the front page and loads something like 800MB of assets, so it may be getting hugged to death.
> "United is saying they don't want to add yet another, and potentially even more powerful, intermediary than they already face in terms of Google search, price-comparison metasearch sites and online travel agencies"
What if the airlines instead focused on delivering great service at a competitive price?
"What if the airlines instead focused on delivering great service at a competitive price?"
Germania, IIRC, tried that in the late 90s, offering a flat fare for every seat.
They had to roll it back very quickly because their bookings dropped unsustainably - nobody wanted to pay a fair price for a seat, even if it was cheaper than they might realistically have had to pay under dynamic pricing.
All that potential customers fixated on was that the flat fares were more expensive than the few cheap loss-leader seats advertised on rival airlines.
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" etc etc
Those used to exist, nobody flew on them and they went bankrupt. The market has decisively decided. In airlines, price beats all else, even time in most cases.
Alaska nickles and dimes just like the rest, charges for the privilege of picking your seat, etc. They're not worse than the rest, but I don't see them as any better, certainly. I almost exclusively fly Alaska since my closest airport is one of their major hubs.
A company so big so reliant a single person is a risk either way, it's just a matter of when it gets resolved. It's the bus factor. See also what would happen to $3T in combined market value if Elon Musk were to have a stroke tomorrow.
And even in that short time range, the difference in capabilities 18 months versus 3 months ago is so massive that the expectation of what it means for them to 'work' has changed.
I was a kid in the 90s too. Paper airplane design has come a long way since then. Some great designers include John Collins, Michael LaFosse, and Jayson Merrill. Various designs from each of them can be found on Foldable Flight's YouTube channel, but they also have their own channels and books.
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