But what's bad for energy companies is good for everybody else especially Asia's fuel-intensive airlines and manufacturing giants.
Which ones lost out the most? A. The most capital-intensive businesses -- airlines, basic commodities, basic industry, the steel industry -- almost anybody outside the service sector that's investing in high tech.
Mr. Siegel, 40, took charge on March 6 with one goal in mind: to get the sickest of the major airlines out of intensive care and at least into rehab, if not back on its feet.
I mean, we've seen it with the airline industries, capital intensive industries where all these earnings over time have disappeared.
Transit intensive care on board commercial airline flights poses complex physiological and logistic challenges.
Who is to say the new regulators will save us from future financial asset bubbles rather then inhibit investing, even legitimate speculation and capital-raising for recurrent users like utilities, airlines and other capital intensive sectors?
The airline industry itself is capital intensive and vulnerable to supply shocks and regulatory interference all reasons that American airlines are, as a rule, unprofitable.
Hoping to create what Mr. Egli called a paradigm shift in airline food service, LSG Sky Chefs did intensive research and development on a food-for-sale program called In-Flight Cafe.
Two months ago, I found myself knee-deep in one of those 2-day intensive courses on negotiation you see advertised in airline magazines.
Bill McDougall, a retired airline pilot who spearheaded the purchase, said intensive member interest had changed the way his clubs, and other clubs, would do business forever.
But, then, that's why the airline, and its Gulf rivals, have started intensive training programmes.
