What is the cost of grounding all flights across the USA for one day?

I’ve seen figures that estimate the aviation industry to provide about $1.5 trillion worth of GDP for America, so 4-5 billion dollars. Feel free to double that for the cost of dealing with unexpected disruptions and loss of institutional trust.

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echoangle 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Assuming the GDP is lost completely and not at least partially made up by increasing number of flights on other days.

	▲	starttoaster 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It probably is at least partially made up. But I don't know about you, but my flights for the last year or two have all been booked up for every seat. And I'm not sure carriers just have a bunch of planes sitting around not making money. Or a bunch of crew sitting around not making money.

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pvab3 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

All of the AI money discussions have broken me for being surprised by large amounts of money. The frontier companies spend that in what, 5 minutes?

	▲	fourthark 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		All US AI companies combined: about two days.