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post 1600009861 03-17-2020, 10:56 AM
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Airlines want a bailout

How about you take some of the billions of dollars you made, making us all pay for our first and second checked bag, or banning checked bags, for crappy meals, for paying to select any seat, for being hours delayed and not giving any credit, retrofitting old planes to pack in more tiny seats and fist yourselves?

American Airlines in 2015, made a$7.6 billion profit— compared, for example, to profits of about $500 million in 2007 and less than $250 million in 2006. It earned billions in profit annually for the rest of the decade.
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Airlines are cancer. You have to pay for your first checked bag now? No mas. Let them die
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The government should threaten more regulation if they receive any taxpayer money and they'll shut the fuk up about it real quick. 2008 was a mistake now every company thinks the govt should bail them out
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brb we are expected to keep 6 months of expenses in savings for situations like this, but not multinational corporations. Who could be behind this?
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post 1600010741 03-17-2020, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted By 8pilot8⏩
How about you take some of the billions of dollars you made, making us all pay for our first and second checked bag, or banning checked bags, for crappy meals, for paying to select any seat, for being hours delayed and not giving any credit, retrofitting old planes to pack in more tiny seats and fist yourselves?

American Airlines in 2015, made a$7.6 billion profit— compared, for example, to profits of about $500 million in 2007 and less than $250 million in 2006. It earned billions in profit annually for the rest of the decade.
$1.4 billion profit in 2019.

$44 billion gross in 2019.

3% return.

Try again.

Airlines are a low-margin business, not that far away from grocery stores (1%). Getting shut down for 2 months with 0 income and tens of billions in capital sitting idle will kill them.

If you want to fly a plane AFTER this all blows over, it's going to require a 9/11-ish stimulus.
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post 1600010891 03-17-2020, 11:09 AM
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Strong retardation ITT

Airlines are a staple of our economy, its not just the money they make, its the transportation services they provide. If airlines go down, our economy will go to sh*t. Srs.
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post 1600011031 03-17-2020, 11:11 AM
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government regulated travel bans, tell people to stay indoors and "self distance" and wonder why the airlines are losing a ton of money right now.
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they'll give a few million each to a few politicians and get a few billion in bailouts.

fukk them. especially air canada, every stewardess is a bloody hag. 100% srs. look like the meredith chick from the office. and the food fukkin sucks.
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Originally Posted By BullStampede⏩
brb we are expected to keep 6 months of expenses in savings for situations like this, but not multinational corporations. Who could be behind this?
If every dime they made for the last two years went into cash reserves/a rainy day fund, it wouldn't last them a month of normal operations. You can actually save a lot higher percentage of your income than they can.
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post 1600011871 03-17-2020, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted By 3basic5me⏩
they'll give a few million each to a few politicians and get a few billion in bailouts.

fukk them. especially air canada, every stewardess is a bloody hag. 100% srs. look like the meredith chick from the office. and the food fukkin sucks.
Do you want hot sloots or $30 off your next fare.
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Originally Posted By dopamine72⏩
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Airlines are a staple of our economy, its not just the money they make, its the transportation services they provide. If airlines go down, our economy will go to sh*t. Srs.
stewardess spotted
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Originally Posted By FA*******⏩
$1.4 billion profit in 2019.

$44 billion gross in 2019.

3% return.

Try again.
So your point is since they only made $1.4billionin profit last year so we should bail them out because that's not a very high margin.

OK cool.
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This is straight up socialism. I don’t want MY TAX DOLLARS going to your failed business that couldn’t prepare for a recession.
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post 1600012261 03-17-2020, 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted By Ratfish⏩
stewardess spotted
The correct term is flight attendant bro
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stop booking such cheap flights, that they want you pay for the first checked bag.
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Originally Posted By dopamine72⏩
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Airlines are a staple of our economy, its not just the money they make, its the transportation services they provide. If airlines go down, our economy will go to sh*t. Srs.
**** that, they are privately held companies.
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Originally Posted By LieutenantGains⏩
This is straight up socialism. I don’t want MY TAX DOLLARS going to your failed business that couldn’t prepare for a recession.
Prepare for a recession=/=pandemic

You guys are straight up retarded.

If they require a bailout they will get a bailout. Your tax dollars will help bail them out. There is nothing that you are willing to do about that because it's not an actual problem for you. Some of you belong in a third world ****hole.
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Originally Posted By 8pilot8⏩
So your point is since they only made $1.4billionin profit last year so we should bail them out because that's not a very high margin.

OK cool.
Nah. the low margin thing was aimed at vvv
How about you take some of the billions of dollars you made, making us all pay for our first and second checked bag, or banning checked bags, for crappy meals, for paying to select any seat, for being hours delayed and not giving any credit, retrofitting old planes to pack in more tiny seats and fist yourselves?
which you don't realize that even with all that, they're not making chit.

But thereal point is they have to spend $43 billion to make $1.4 billion, and right now they are probably still spending the better part of that $43 billion and making nearly zero. In good times, airlines don't earn that much relative to their high costs. When a crisis comes, those costs eat them alive.

Air travel is a national interest, as dopamine72 said, and they guys providing it are going to be bankrupt in a few months.

So! With that being said, your options are now

A. Bailout
B. Nationalize (and if you pick this option, I don't want to hear you say chit about socialism)
C. Go without air travel as a country.
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Inb4 every corporation, bank, IG thot, single mother, welfare scumbag and illegal immigrant gets a special bailout package except for working-class and middle-class tax-paying men. JFL.
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Originally Posted By dopamine72⏩
The correct term is flight attendant bro
They prefer to be called crewmembers
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Originally Posted By FA*******⏩
If every dime they made for the last two years went into cash reserves/a rainy day fund, it wouldn't last them a month of normal operations. You can actually save a lot higher percentage of your income than they can.
I agree. I am not inherently against the bailout, as we cannot afford to lose the airlines. Nobody with an IQ above 85 believes the free market is actually a thing, so there is no way we could actually lose them. A large part of our economy is founded upon air travel, and it isnt like there is such a thing as a small airline business. Just too many hurdles and barriers to entry. I would just be much more willing to provide them with this money if they were doing their part.
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Yeah give the airlines a bailout, and all other companies with low margins.

And also, me, I wasted all my money gambling, trying to make more money for myself. Plz give me money now I have none left and I will put it back into the economy I swear. Plz send bailout to me asap.
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I am shocked that a company that offers to take you from Boston to Miami and back for $99 with free bags would need a bailout when they stop selling tickets.


Some of the big ones make HUGE profits, but the cost to run airlines is huge. Take away 90% of the customers, and still have those flights happen, and all those profits are gone.

When you cheap the F out on every flight you buy, this is what you get.
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too big to fail is inherently false

too big is principally why they should fail and be carved up

should have definitely not bailed out the ******* gambler banks last time
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No. If anyone should get a bailout, it should go to people who cannot work because their jobs are closed. They need the money especially if they have to go to the hospital for COVID-19 or they have rent to pay or something.
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Originally Posted By MyGhettoFantasy⏩
Prepare for a recession=/=pandemic

You guys are straight up retarded.

If they require a bailout they will get a bailout. Your tax dollars will help bail them out. There is nothing that you are willing to do about that because it's not an actual problem for you. Some of you belong in a third world ****hole.
Nobody “requires” a bailout. The great thing about capitalism is if you fail, you fail. Maybe they should have put those $40 bag fees and tax cuts into savings instead of stock buybacks.
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Originally Posted By Jayl12345⏩
I am shocked that a company that offers to take you from Boston to Miami and back for $99 with free bags would need a bailout when they stop selling tickets.


Some of the big ones make HUGE profits, but the cost to run airlines is huge. Take away 90% of the customers, and still have those flights happen, and all those profits are gone.

When you cheap the F out on every flight you buy, this is what you get.
okay where do you draw the line? there are numerous other industries that are taking sizable losses because of this pandemic... how many of them do you bail out? starbucks has closed many locations across the world for the time being, should you shell out a few hundred billion to cover their revenue? lol


btw this isnt going away anytime soon. wanna cover their share for 5-6 months bro?
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