Bumpy flights

In the discount business-only airline industry, better be a passenger than a shareholder. Passengers on the whole have been able to enjoy attentive service, on-time flights and the now-obligatory flat beds on most of the routes, at a fraction of what flying on more established players would have cost them. Shareholders, on the other hand, have gone through all the usual stages of the new new thing: excitement, sobering up, then disappointment if not outright failure – as with Maxjet, which filed...