Right, and uncle sugar covered major portions of the airlines salaries for the two years of covid.

Since the end of covid, the airline environment has been on a profit fever. For y'all equating some magical mgmt ability, it's been a great market for the airlines for the last year that has only been hampered by the lack of available planes and labor.

My whole response was to the opinion of some on this thread on how great a mgmt strategy had been on the recovery.

In hindsight, the fact that the US Govt gave the airlines money (that was free as long as they didn't furlough) which inevitably encouraged them to VEOP and early retire as many things/people as possible, ended up costing the industry $$$$$ because if there had been furloughs, at least the recovery would've snapped back at even a faster pace.

Of course everything about COVID could have been improved if govt/airlines had a 20/20 hindsight mirror.