Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Option four: something like Moxie or Amazon Prime Express selling tickets online and running 80-130 seat aircraft that steal the medium city market away from the biggies.
How is Sears Roebucks' catalogue business doing against Amazon? Or individual video stores against Netflix?
Leave a market untapped or even underserved for very long and some one will find a way to take that market away from you.
You can't replace airliners, professional crews, mx, support infrastructure, etc. with an app.
Ticket sales have already migrated to the digital realm.
The only money to be made in startups is to leverage low labor longevity, and hope you can sell the thing off before unions, labor longevity, and economy of scale catch up with you. Airline startups have an abysmal success rate.
Genius entrepreneurs who think they can do it better come and go, there's been a steady parade of them for decades.