There are global players in many industries and to get to be global often they acquire large national companies in countries to expand to those markets.
Why is it with Airlines that there are no global companies owning airlines across multiple nations?
Virgin is the closest I can think of and even they do not actually own the airlines, just the name in some places (Australia).
My only thought is that airlines are not exactly huge profit centres?
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Is that right? I can think of a couple flight routs off the top of my head that don’t touch their ‘home country’. I know United has quite a few Asian tours originating in Tokyo and ending in places like Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong. Emerites runs some flight routs between Australia and south East Asia. I believe Singapore airlines also runs a couple from Europe to the Middle East and a few from east asia to the United as well. But maybe those are the exceptions you are talking about.
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