Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Who needs Jepp/Boeing? It is public data.

An airline the size of Delta could simply develop its own. Anyone recall how Jeppessen got started in the first place for United?

If I was in negotiations with Boeing / Jepp my first step would be to file a press release that we are developing a competing product and assign some managers to a new division while making sure their business cards got left around the bars frequented by Jepp management. Once they were all taking blood pressure medication, I'd negotiate a deal.

Hey, alter ego works on pilots. Why not database vendors?