Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't forget that a company internally is run like a Soviet Style planned economy. 5 year plans, no way for people on the ground to adjust plans, inflexible leadership. I could also mention things like total disconnect between communication from leadership and reality or motivational posters. It's all there. It's not surprising they create similar behaviors.
And yet, all of these companies that run like command economies have collectively out-competed all the companies that run like market economies. We know this, because the latter... Don't really exist. No company of any note operates like one. Does that imply that command economies are actually more efficient than market ones?
Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak
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Re: Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You literally can't start an airline from scratch. Gonna need a citation on this one. I would guess the actual reason airlines are hard to start from scratch is the massive capital required, but would be interested in having this guess proven incorrect. Porter Airlines in Canada (which presumably has a very similar regulatory regime) was started from scratch about 20 years ago.
Very small airline. They have 29 planes that can hold 74 people. American airlines (including regional partnerships has 1700).
* The parent comment didn't caveat "large airline".
* Porter is the third-largest airline in Canada. Canada has 10% of the population of the US, so our airlines will be accordingly smaller.
* American Airlines is the largest airline in North America [1], serves the entire country + international. Really not a reasonable comparison to a regional domestic airline.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_airlines_in_No...
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#263Re: Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak
#264I've been on three flights (domestic US) in the past week. Pretty much normal load factor as far as I could tell.
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#266AFAIK this is common practice in many armies, where each group obtains a predetermined amount ('dotation') of goods (gas, ammo, clothes...) for a given period (often a year), uses whatever it needs, then an accounting process takes into account whatever wasn't used in order to calculate the next dotation. It seems consistent and efficient. However it neglects human nature. The soldiers want to avoid missing anything,…
Re: Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak
#267AFAIK this is common practice in many armies, where each group obtains a predetermined amount ('dotation') of goods (gas, ammo, clothes...) for a given period (often a year), uses whatever it needs, then an accounting process takes into account whatever wasn't used in order to calculate the next dotation. It seems consistent and efficient. However it neglects human nature. The soldiers want to avoid missing anything,…
It's also a common practice in any department that has their budget determined this way, e.g. https://vimeo.com/27060669
Re: Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak
#268AFAIK this is common practice in many armies, where each group obtains a predetermined amount ('dotation') of goods (gas, ammo, clothes...) for a given period (often a year), uses whatever it needs, then an accounting process takes into account whatever wasn't used in order to calculate the next dotation. It seems consistent and efficient. However it neglects human nature. The soldiers want to avoid missing anything,…
Re: Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak
#269Re: Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak
#270AFAIK this is common practice in many armies, where each group obtains a predetermined amount ('dotation') of goods (gas, ammo, clothes...) for a given period (often a year), uses whatever it needs, then an accounting process takes into account whatever wasn't used in order to calculate the next dotation. It seems consistent and efficient. However it neglects human nature. The soldiers want to avoid missing anything,…