Originally Posted by e6bpilot

Sorry, dudes, but in the modern airline oligopoly, nobody is failing despite the complete idiocy of the management teams.
Sure, there may be a few more marginal players that get sucked up or that band together, but the four biggest airlines will exist as they are now into the distant future. They pretend to compete with each other, but just like the world powers in the book 1984, they are always at war with one another and they just fight over little crumbs of market share. They function pretty well right now to transport people and goods around the country and to make money for the investor class.
Barring some world ending cataclysmic event like a meteor strike, nothing is going to change.