It’s called unemployment benefits, and the checks will cash just fine.

Watching AA go through this is like a wet dream for you. What a sad person you are.

you mean like if most of the below cease to exist and operate ?

JetBlue
Frontier
Spirit
Allegient
Sun Country
UAL
AA
DAL
Hawaiian
Alaska
Southwest

Uhhh.....

* The entire world is suffering in some form or manner from this....every industry could use a "bail out"

It was ridiculous in 2018...even more so now.

Doug Parker AMR will never lose money again..jpg

He was probably drunk

That will be an understatement if you end up in BK court.
BK in itself is VERY EXPENSIVE, $100's of millions down the rathole of lawyers fees and other costs that do nothing to help the operation, or pay employees more. It lasts a long time and costs so much that the company has no choice but to go for the jugular so that they can get new financing to rebuild the airline at a new improved cost structure.

Big daddy gov is gonna print money and give them all $1000, and they'll get unemployment if they get laid off. So don't act like they aren't getting something. The world will have to cook for 2 weeks, OMG!!! Worst case scenario, you can eat all the toilet paper you hoarded.

The airlines are the size that they are because the vast majority of people want to fly, not because they really need to. Businesses prefer a face to face meeting and a handshake, but the same meeting could be held with a teleconference. People enjoy vacation travel, but there really isn’t a need to go sit on a beach in the Caribbean. Most of us are employed because the public prefers to buy our services, not because the world will stop spinning if global aviation gets cut in half. This is hitting the travel industry hard. It is also hitting other industries hard. Should bailouts go to concert halls, restaurants, convention centers, etc, as well? Where would it stop? Demand will return at some point. The market will direct the industry how to react to what ever the new normal is.

Pax are now stealing tp from the aircraft. WTF?

This is true under normal events but this is different, there’s no passengers that need the service. I say shut it down temporarily instead of flying empty planes around costing tax payers 50 billion. Even if there is a bailout get ready to fly for min wage.