Airlines are critical to our infrastructure, they should not be doing buybacks, or anything that puts them in jeopardy when something like this happens, and we wind up on the hook for them.
When Trump said of Boeing, “we can’t let them fail”, that too big to fail thing with the automaker bailout popped into my head. I suppose some are so tied in with fedgov that they are important but they need to behave themselves and in Boeing’s case, get their shit together.