No one is wishing for AA to fail. Least of all those of us who work for AAG. I just think it’s foolish to think this is all somehow too big or too important to go away. There is precedence and it can absolutely happen. Not much we can do about it however.

You also have to remember... For as hard as Doug and AA will be lobbying the federal government and likely several of the states, the leadership at competing airlines will be lobbying against an AA bailout too.