[jplayer01]

> Create a crappy business, hire 130k employees, and get the state to pay for your failures.

Uh ...

You'd rather Germany sink 10 billion Euros into an American company with barely any German jobs? Over 60k of those 130k are in Germany. If your plan is to cripple the economy, then yeah, absolutely, let all these companies fail and put all these people out of work for a situation that is in no way their fault and there's no feasible way for them to have prepared for such a drastic fall in revenue (for reference, their 2019 revenue was 36 billion Euros with a net income of 2bn).

Also, the value of Google and Facebook to society and the economy can seriously be questioned. They don't even pay taxes in Germany. They have zero benefit to the German economy.

[StreamBright]

Or let these companies fail and free up the air routes across Europe and create a more efficient company? I do not think that we need to keep bailing out airlines at all. Lufthansa has so many issues, starting with their website, internal problems (try to get an invoice from them), etc. Why do we (the taxpayers) have to pay for their failures of these airlines?

[baq]

how long does it take to build an efficient airline?

why do you think it won't be a net positive for the tax payer? it's literally the government buying low and selling high when this is over.

[StreamBright]

Look at the Asian airlines. Many of them were built recently. My personal favorite is Air Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirAsia

[viklove]

Not long, when a massive airline recently went bankrupt and you can purchase their assets at fire sale prices and hire their now-jobless employees.

[ricaud]

If you purchase their assets and hire their jobless employees wouldn’t you still have the same inefficient airline?

[viklove]

Presumable you could choose different routes and a different organizational structure