The U.S. airline industry can’t meet the current passenger demand. If you’re not going to price a lot of people out of the market, then that will never change. And if you’re going to approach this from the standpoint that every American has a God-given right to fly on airplanes, then it’s best to step back and not waste your time. Just let it continue the same headlong slide into mediocrity and dysfunction that defines everything else that is treated the same way — like public transit, government schools, crumbling bridges and highways, etc.
That can be fixed, get government out.