Next airline to go under? If I got into the airline business, I’d make it like how airlines did in the 1970s. Meals, nice pillows and stewardesses. DeplorableAmerican Airlines will be colorful (like Braniff was).
Can't remember the name of the discount airline which collapsed in the summer of 2006, but I sure remember the circumstances.
My eldest daughter had suffered a double whammy and wanted to come home. Her boyfriend dumped her because she wanted to save her goods for marriage and he thought that was an old fashioned attitude. Two days later, the rental car agency where she was working fired her because she wasn't good at selling that rip-off supplemental insurance.
Needless to say, Dad was proud of her on both counts and scrambled to find an inexpensive airline ticket with three kids in college.
The only thing available on such short notice on a budget was one of those discount airlines. As the plane was about to land in Pittsburgh, the pilot announced that the airline was filing for bankruptcy and suspending operations. Anyone with a return ticket was invited to trade it in for a $50 voucher with Delta or USAir, who had both agreed to honor such exchanges for the next 30 days or so.
Fortunately, my daughter had only a one way ticket as her plans the week before was work, attend the local community college and maybe get married. The last few days had jettisoned those plans.
Five years later, she had finished college, was gainfully employed in her chosen profession and found a decent guy worthy of her.