[dfwgator]

The bottom line is that especially after 9/11, businesses realized that there wasn't nearly as much need for business travel, especially with the advance of internet technology to link business partners together. This is a sea change that apparently the airlines haven't figured out how to deal with yet.

[Chuckster]

Hmmmm. Kind of reminiscent of the great trans-Atlantic ocean liners being killed off by the airlines - then re-emerging (Albeit years later) as cruise ships. For decades the great liners competed with faster and ever faster ships. Today, their market is completely different. Speed is now irrelevant, having been replaced as a competitive factor by opulence, entertainment and price since no one actually travels by ship anymore. If you want to get somewhere, you fly.

I wonder how air travel will evolve.

Just a thought