Re-regulation is the only answer. The airlines are operating a complex monopoly which distorts the free market. It needs a comprehensive anti-trust investigation and the "fortress hubs" need to be broken up and the monopolistic and abusive practices banned. What happens now is crazy.
Only in the mad world of aviation can a carrier go bankrupt, deprive honest businesses of their due, (causing some suppliers to go bankrupt with them), strip benefits and pensions obligations from long standing employees and then re-emerge from bankruptcy as the largest air carrier in the world having taken out a competitor in the process. (Delta).
We reward FAILURE and we protect corrupt practices because their lobbying power is so great. It is pathetic and frankly unbelieveable that it has been allowed to go for so long. The US protectionist system isn't working... if it was, ask yourself why all the best airlines in the world are non US?
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