For instance, what if Airline A were to ‘encourage’ each of their employees to place a series of small bets on Airline B going bump in the night? Acting as private individuals rather than as employees, naturally.
Airline B’s shareholders could see the odds on its demise shortening, or may see reports to that effect in the media, and might decide to cut their losses – with predictably dire results for Airline B.
I quite agree. Similar scenerios to what happened years ago in the old BA/Virgin dirty tricks campaign. Do whatever to undermine your competitor. Thankfully we have fairly strong regulation these days. If an airline tried that these days it would cost them hundreds of millions in fines. I suppose you could argue they could possibly put themselves out of business as a result.
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