airline

In general, airline parts come with serial numbers and other means of identification.

To start an airline you need large investments (you need to rent or purchase airplanes, crew, fuel).

Everyone is undercutting each other because customers are not locked into one airline and are price sensitive.

This is apparently a big problem historically in countries that derive most of their commercial airline pilots from the military.

Whereas when have you ever vetted a airline pilot before purchasing a commercial flight?

There's as much difference between Uber and the airline industry as there is in a $10 ride home versus a $250+/person flight.

Crazy to think no airline has put a real effort in their IFE systems.

That’s why we end up with oligopolies, sooner or later airline corporations have to merge in order to cut costs.

Although we can never be absolutely certain, we now believe the Eastern Airline crash at Bainbridge was caused by unporting.

Cards aimed at people with good credit scores often come with other nice benefits, such as additional reimbursement if an airline loses your bag.

This is a little tongue-and-cheek, but if it inspires even one person to start an airline Boeing will make their money back in no time!

In fact, I can't remember the last plane I flew on that actually had the power jack the airline adapter needed.

If you want to "disrupt" the airline business, invent anti-gravity.

But the author is asking for a more general "how can we disrupt the airline industry the way Uber disrupted taxis?" As with any startup, first ask "what is the need you're satisfying" - Need more affordable, more convenient fast travel from point A to point B.

"if you're a pilot or into aviation, definitely read Fate is the Hunter." Second that, "Fate is the Hunter" [0] by Ernest Gann [1] describes the precarious life of a US career airline pilot (including descriptions of flying DC2's, DC3's & DC4's, flight seniority and luck) between the 30's to the 50's.