[spycatcher]

All that would happen is a new start-up airline would come along and buy up planes on the cheap and run a profitable business in their wake. Bailouts are stupid policy here

[cynicom]

spy....

Since the 1940s, there is a long list of failed airlines, there is a very short list of startup airlines that are still in business. Going back to the old days, with regulated routes and service, with the government paying them to fly the routes, with or without passenges, seems to me to be the worst of two evils.