• explodicle@local106.com
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    11 months ago

    Inequality has gotten so much worse that rich people don’t even fly in the same planes as us anymore.

    That’s going to have perverse incentives on airplane safety too. They have no reason to update their laws if peasant airplane doors falling off becomes common.

    • TurtleJoe@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I have a friend that is a sales manager for private planes. He said business exploded during the pandemic and then never slowed down. This despite flights being eye-wateringly expensive (like, 20k for one-way is a great deal, because you managed to book an empty leg.)