Boeing wrote a step-by-step guide for starting a new airline. Here’s what it wants potential founders — and customers — to know.

The first flight of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
The first flight of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.

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The airline business is notoriously fickle.

Back in 2007, Warren Buffett, chair of Berkshire Hathaway, said that “if a far-sighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.”