United needs to be allowed to go completely out of business and never offer another flight. We need to let failure have a negative consequence. Otherwise, any intelligent cost accountant will tell you that failure is always cheaper to produce.
What we "need" and what we will get are two entirely different things.
Like I stated, IMHO the feds will not allow another depression and will prop up the economy, wherever and whenever it is necessary.
The airlines have become much like Amtrack, the NEA, and any other government program.