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Everyone knows that the heavy burdens of legacy carriers provide an excellent opportunity for upstarts, but with an entry point no lower than $100 million it takes deep pockets to make it happen.
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Where are the startup airlines?
With the big carriers cutting routes and raising fares, this would seem an ideal time for a new airline to take them on with cut-rate prices and service to smaller airports eager for more flights. That is the path, after all, taken by two of the industry’s success stories: Southwest Airlines, in 1971, and JetBlue Airways, in 2000.
