And creditors, who’ve learned from the Hanjin fiasco to not count on government bailouts of even the biggest carriers, are likely to try to protect their balance sheets more carefully. So they’ll pull back at the worst possible time, just when that carrier needs it the most. This is what caused Hanjin to keel over.
Hanjin’s bankruptcy “shatters the complacency” that too-big-to-fail carriers “are immune to failure.”