Originally Posted by Viper25

They got bailed out because they were too big to fail. They weren’t bailed out after 9/11 because they were not too big to fail. 4 carriers have 80% of the market share. It never used to be like that.

The other factor is retirements. There has never been a retirement wave like this one. And it will blunt staffing overages for a while to come. There was no such shock absorber in previous crises.

I ask again, how long as it been since the big 3 furloughed?