> Isn't each individual airline is itself a command economy, internally
Yes. The difference is that an "airline command economy" collapsing from incompetence is an uneventful bankruptcy, and a national command economy collapsing means civil war and anarchy.
That's a trivially true statement for any descriptor which can be applied to both a business and a nation? National economic collapse generally means civil war and anarchy in almost any case.
Nation is like "too big to fail" businesses and both are bad because of this. Free market system requires everyone to be able to be eliminated from the competition.
Although sometimes I imaged UBI to instead enhance free market because it allows every person to contribute to the competition and can still fail gracefully. Instead poor person is now also "too big to fall" because they're betting their livelihood for each proposal.
Yes. The difference is that an "airline command economy" collapsing from incompetence is an uneventful bankruptcy, and a national command economy collapsing means civil war and anarchy.