Once upon a time there was an airline (let’s call them “Alpha”) that was quite large and doing very well and held the direct route from JFK to Russia’s largest city, Moscow. Anyone wanting to travel to Russia’s second largest city (St. Petersburg) and to do so on an American based airline found themselves using Alpha and traveling upwards of 18 hours with layovers and connecting flights.
Then one day a little nothing by the name of Eyore started an airline (let’s call it “Beta” Air Lines) and captured an exclusive route from JFK to St. Petersburg, and Alpha laughed hard. Real hard.
But as the years passed, and Beta Air Lines did not fall to the wayside as every other airline had done in the past, Alpha started to get a little nervous, even at one point tossing around the possibility of buying Beta for $500 million dollars, just to keep them from ever becoming a viable airline.
When Beta declined the generous offer, Alpha was upset….and started doing things that a good airline really should not do, and Alpha searched for not-so-nice ways to delay Beta’s certification.
At first it was simple, get a few people to say some bad things about Beta and scare people away from Beta’s stock, and hopefully Beta would go belly up.
But Beta kept plugging away, regardless of what was being said about them.
When Beta’s manuals were accepted by the Fairyland Air Administrators and Beta began the certification process, Alpha figured it would use its financial strength to ask some of the highly underpaid examiners to perhaps see if they could find a way to stall things even more…..and Beta’s certification came to a screeching halt in Gotham City.
Fortunately, “Kaliha” (the good witch of the West) invited Beta to leave Gotham City and to join them in the land of the automobile, and Beta’s certification once again began to move along.
Angered but not defeated, Alpha searched for some even more not-so-nice ways to stall the process, and soon found individuals in a myriad of areas, perhaps the two best being right inside Fairyland Air Administration itself….one being local and another being on the next step up in a more regional area. Unfortunately, the top entities in Washinggram proved to be untouchable, but Alpha felt certain that the process could be stopped at the local or regional level and would never make it to Washinggram.
So Beta continued the process, and no matter what they did, and no matter how right things went, they kept having their wings clipped, until one day “Sherry” (their Fairy God Mother) appeared and said, “Beta…..I know how to fix this and get Alpha to back off once and for all”…..and Beta listened.
Now….at this point no one knows for sure how the story will end, but it certainly looks like the henchmen working for Alpha are starting to fall one by one…and fall hard….and soon Alpha may have to explain what they have been up to these last few years.
No doubt, Alpha will have had no idea what was going on and one of their loyal soldiers will take the fall as an extremely wealthy scapegoat, but that is just how the story goes so often in fairyland.
But…..rest assured before their final defeat, Alpha is going to give it one hell of a last fight - a fight they have been planning as their last resort for quite some time now – even as Beta’s troops march to Washinggram to expose their corruption.
Shares of Beta will miraculously appear from now where (having been slowly accumulated over the years just for this purpose) and the volume will skyrocket and the pps will fall, and perhaps even Alpha themselves will show up at the last minute as the White Knight in shining armor and offer to take Beta shares of the hands of the poor, exhausted, unfortunate Betaholics……..
LOL……..from where I see it, it looks like Alpha got desperate and cocky and most importantly…..CARELESS…., and it looks like their henchmen left tracks in more than one place. Some call it “politics”. Other’s call it “restriction of free-trade.”
Let’s see how this story pans out……………….
Then one day a little nothing by the name of Eyore started an airline (let’s call it “Beta” Air Lines) and captured an exclusive route from JFK to St. Petersburg, and Alpha laughed hard. Real hard.
But as the years passed, and Beta Air Lines did not fall to the wayside as every other airline had done in the past, Alpha started to get a little nervous, even at one point tossing around the possibility of buying Beta for $500 million dollars, just to keep them from ever becoming a viable airline.
When Beta declined the generous offer, Alpha was upset….and started doing things that a good airline really should not do, and Alpha searched for not-so-nice ways to delay Beta’s certification.
At first it was simple, get a few people to say some bad things about Beta and scare people away from Beta’s stock, and hopefully Beta would go belly up.
But Beta kept plugging away, regardless of what was being said about them.
When Beta’s manuals were accepted by the Fairyland Air Administrators and Beta began the certification process, Alpha figured it would use its financial strength to ask some of the highly underpaid examiners to perhaps see if they could find a way to stall things even more…..and Beta’s certification came to a screeching halt in Gotham City.
Fortunately, “Kaliha” (the good witch of the West) invited Beta to leave Gotham City and to join them in the land of the automobile, and Beta’s certification once again began to move along.
Angered but not defeated, Alpha searched for some even more not-so-nice ways to stall the process, and soon found individuals in a myriad of areas, perhaps the two best being right inside Fairyland Air Administration itself….one being local and another being on the next step up in a more regional area. Unfortunately, the top entities in Washinggram proved to be untouchable, but Alpha felt certain that the process could be stopped at the local or regional level and would never make it to Washinggram.
So Beta continued the process, and no matter what they did, and no matter how right things went, they kept having their wings clipped, until one day “Sherry” (their Fairy God Mother) appeared and said, “Beta…..I know how to fix this and get Alpha to back off once and for all”…..and Beta listened.
Now….at this point no one knows for sure how the story will end, but it certainly looks like the henchmen working for Alpha are starting to fall one by one…and fall hard….and soon Alpha may have to explain what they have been up to these last few years.
No doubt, Alpha will have had no idea what was going on and one of their loyal soldiers will take the fall as an extremely wealthy scapegoat, but that is just how the story goes so often in fairyland.
But…..rest assured before their final defeat, Alpha is going to give it one hell of a last fight - a fight they have been planning as their last resort for quite some time now – even as Beta’s troops march to Washinggram to expose their corruption.
Shares of Beta will miraculously appear from now where (having been slowly accumulated over the years just for this purpose) and the volume will skyrocket and the pps will fall, and perhaps even Alpha themselves will show up at the last minute as the White Knight in shining armor and offer to take Beta shares of the hands of the poor, exhausted, unfortunate Betaholics……..
LOL……..from where I see it, it looks like Alpha got desperate and cocky and most importantly…..CARELESS…., and it looks like their henchmen left tracks in more than one place. Some call it “politics”. Other’s call it “restriction of free-trade.”
Let’s see how this story pans out……………….
