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536. Is Your Plane Ticket Too Expensive — or Too Cheap?

Freakonomics Radio

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The US Airline Industry Is Subsidized by the Government

David Neillmann is the founder of Breeze Airways in the US. He founded JetBlue and Azul Airlines in Brazil. The airline industry is just hard, he says. It requires a big and expensive network,. You also have to engage intimately with people using that network. We don't see it reorganize and lose all their money, which is what's supposed to happen when airlines can't pay their bill or any firm can't pay its bills.

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