Originally Posted by
ImmaAHole
I somehow think the flying public these days wouldn't really care if AA went away, except those that live near a major hub. Airlines are their own worst enemy, how they treat their customers.
I don’t think the government is going to allow one of the “Big 3” remaining legacies to fail. They may assume some manner of “public ownership” etc but not fail. They aren’t going to let some of the nations largest metropolitan areas (CLT, DFW, MIA, PHX and to an extent DCA) lose their largest carrier. Especially at a time when there simply aren’t any other carriers that could come in and fill that big of a void at the moment.