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Unpopular opinion: governments made airlines' businesses temporarily illegal to use; compensating them for that isn't crazy.

5:40 AM · Mar 22, 2020Twitter Web App

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O my...

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Same with almost every other business right now

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I've seen so many against the bailouts. I understand their point. Imagine if a majority of airlines globally suddenly went under. That would be a HUGE loss IMO, travel is highly important to other industries' success. Waiting for someone to pick up the pieces is worse.

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good point, hadnt thought of it that way.

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Airlines fuck us all for years, charging outrageous ticket prices, $200+ for extra bags, squeezing less and less legroom, making us pay for their shitty TSA security from their own mess ups and buying back stock to increase corporates profits. Now we bail them out? Fuck off

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SBF

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Mar 22, 2020

Not quite, but it's made international flying basically illegal with border closings. So at least compensation for the % of flights that were intl.

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this perspective would imply that governments are at "fault" for the lack of ability to travel. Reality is governments simply responded to the cause of the interruption.

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Respectfully believe this misses the point. Another topic that misses the point: they created bag fees in 2008, then decided they liked those profits in perpetuity because there isn’t a damn thing a customer can do about it. I’m surprised the bathroom doesn’t cost money yet.