Originally Posted by
rickair7777
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.
Oh, I'm well aware of the old joke:
Q: What's the fastest way to become a millionaire?
A: Be a billionaire and buy an airline.
But notwithstanding that, entrepreneurship is not altogether dead. You MAY be right, but that doesn't mean someone might not try it - or even be nimble enough to make it work. Time will tell.
And if those 60 C-series (whoops, Airbus 220) orders become actual aircraft, it will at least make an interesting little footnote in Air Transport history.