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Old Sep 15, 2018, 10:15 am
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jsloan
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Originally Posted by NYCommuter
During the last 30 years, airline revenues fell by half as a percentage of GDP...because GDP increased significantly in the 1990s above the inflation rate and because they could fall due to airline costs falling significantly.
Kirby's logic would have had blacksmiths in 1910 complaining that they ought to double the price of horseshoes, too.
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