Will Airlines be regulated?
03-25-2020, 12:09 AM
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Will Airlines be regulated?
If Airlines continue asking for the federal government to bail them out every 10-20 years, it's pretty inefficient and will do harm to this industry. Do you think Airlines getting regulated will solve these problems?
03-25-2020, 06:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Fatcat
If Airlines continue asking for the federal government to bail them out every 10-20 years, it's pretty inefficient and will do harm to this industry. Do you think Airlines getting regulated will solve these problems?
03-25-2020, 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by OOfff
Airlines are regulated. Heavily.
I anticipate *some* sort of rules to help mitigate the damage if/when this happens again. Won't be full regulation by any means but it might be liquidity rules... but in reality there is no practical way that airlines could save up and just sit on the vast piles of cash needed to get through an extended shutdown/near-shutdown. Maybe a few months worth of cash (which some airlines have today, but some don't).
03-25-2020, 06:44 AM
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Imagine all this never happened......xyz airlines has $50 billion in cash stashed in their safe, CEO goes on CNBC & says “we’re stockpiling it in case of a global pandemic...”
They’d lead him away in a straightjacket.
They’d lead him away in a straightjacket.
03-25-2020, 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted by OOfff
Airlines are regulated. Heavily.
LOL. I'm sure you're too young to remember when airlines and routes were regulated. Here's a simple read on it and the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_deregulation
03-25-2020, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by TommyDevito
LOL. I'm sure you're too young to remember when airlines and routes were regulated. Here's a simple read on it and the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_deregulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_deregulation
03-25-2020, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by tailendcharlie
Imagine all this never happened......xyz airlines has $50 billion in cash stashed in their safe, CEO goes on CNBC & says “we’re stockpiling it in case of a global pandemic...”
They’d lead him away in a straightjacket.
They’d lead him away in a straightjacket.
maybe
-you can only spend X% of FCF on stock buybacks
OR
-no one holding an officer level position can sell stocks of their company within X time of any buyback program.
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