Originally Posted by gloopy

Right, and the corruption and nefarious intent of BA is no secret. They are absolutely pillaging the USA on all fronts, from screwing us with ridiculous slush fund programs like the POSF-35 (which they instantly slashed 5M per copy off the price from a single tweet) to all the other "platforms" that they build in almost every congressional district. But NAI isn't really about NAI, and there is zero leverage wrapped up in 20 787's. Their big prize is the raping and sellout of the entire US Airline industry so that BA can split the order books for a one time manufacturing run which, when it settles out, we'll have many tens of thousands fewer good paying jobs.

NAI has zero leverage, and any one legacy airline could bury them with extreme prejudice, with extreme ease, and not even move the needle of their insane profits. All of them together could bury that pig almost instantly if they wanted to. But this is about the long term precedent of the FoC cancer. So how will they come up with enough money to bribe/distract the US Airline industry? They can sneak some under the table to mask NAI maybe, but not the 50 other scab airlines just like them that will start popping up if they are allowed.