Most legacy airlines are still seeking to find their equilibrium in turbulence that has hit the troubled aviation industry.

多数传统航空公司仍然希望在冲击航空业的动荡中自保。

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Shenkar offers the example of the legacy airlines in the United States and their response to the low-cost threat of Southwest Airlines.

申卡尔举了美国传统航空公司在面对西南航空公司的低价威胁时的反应为例。

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In so doing, the two airlines put in mothballs two legacy system they have used for the last four decades.

这意味着，两家航空公司放弃了他们沿用了四十年的旧系统。

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They see international routes as key factors in turning legacy airlines back into cash cows as discounters grab more of the domestic market.

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Ryanair founder Michael O'Leary has said in the past that his airline will grow from being Europe's largest low-cost carrier to become the region's biggest carrier full stop as it takes on the so-called legacy airlines.

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Legacy airlines will then cry that they should be part of the package, too, as could the steel industry if profits plummet because of a weak economy or if the Fed finally pops the commodities bubble.

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