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by rsynnott 652 days ago
Or, less optimistically, caused Airbus's predecessors' consolidation into Airbus, thus leaving the world with three, and then two, makers of large passenger jets, and leading to the current unfortunate situation where even though the 737's currently kind of a dud, you have to buy it anyway because it's half the market and the A320 side of the market is booked up for years.

Like I think there's a strong argument that the current extreme consolidation of the industry is quite a bad thing.