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by lotsofpulp 807 days ago
>But citing early post pandemic years to make that point feels misleading.

Which years should they cite to avoid misleading others?

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UAL/united-airline...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DAL/delta-air-line...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAL/american-airli...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/LUV/southwest-airl...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ALK/alaska-air/pro...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/HA/hawaiian-holdin...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/JBLU/jetblue-airwa...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SAVE/spirit-airlin...

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Those graphs all show a giant anomaly.

Cite pretty much any other year than the giant anomaly?

I don’t understand what the point was to linking those graphs, they self evidently answer the question.

Like the graphs all clearly show the giant anomaly period that was cited.

saas_sam wrote that the airlines have very small profit margins.

Your post implied that the data saas_sam presented did not establish airlines had very small profit margins.

The macrotrend links in my post show airlines have had very small profit margins for many, many years.

… okay so yeah yes um ahem. Ahh.

reread my first and last sentences a couple times in the first comment. Perhaps try asking an LLM to weigh in on what the comment meant.