• iridaniotter [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      For commercial aviation, literally just Boeing. And then Europe has Airbus. The aviation industry really is a fantastic example of how capitalism works.

      • Rx_Hawk [he/him]
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        225 months ago

        Remember how they used to get full course meals in flights? Now we’re packed like sardines and we get a bag of peanuts and a coke.

        • iridaniotter [she/her]
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          155 months ago

          I’m not old enough to remember that. Weren’t tickets much more expensive back then though? I was under impression that both prices and standards fell. Regardless, that’s an airline carrier issue that has little to do with Boeing.

          • Rx_Hawk [he/him]
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            125 months ago

            This is more of a feels comment lol, I just looked into it and yeah tickets used to be about 10x as expensive

            • iridaniotter [she/her]
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              115 months ago

              So you can still get a really good experience now but yeah it’s going to be 10x more expensive as well lol

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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      405 months ago

      Be lucky you don’t live in communist china where Xi Jinping personally owns every company and dives into a large pool of money every morning