the general public sees an industry that has made every decision to make travel more and more miserable. Seats too close. Charging for every single thing. Change fees, etc

they see billion dollar profit sharing checks.

then, after a week of crisis, already asking for $50B+ in aid.

it’s not hard to see why the public would be sour on this idea.

remember, perception is reality.

Not gonna argue with you. It's more in line with what I'm seeing as well. It's almost like the public WANTS the airlines to fail.

what does the German chancellor’s childlessness have to do with anything?

If the airlines weren’t spending all their money on avocado toast, maybe they’d have reserves for a rainy day.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...buybacks-chart

Except they’d have way more cash to weather the storm if they hadn’t wasted it buying back billions of dollars in stock.

As I said before, why SHOULDN'T we get this financial assistance when we are bound by the RLA?

Since we are deemed essential to the nations economy be being bound by that act, we sure as hell should get the benefits from it

Yes we should, WE the employees

Maternity leave, basic healthcare or school lunches, socialism....50 billion for airlines, 2 trillion for banks...capitalism. Got it.

Because change comes through necessity. Why bail you out now, when it would be cheaper to let the the creditors form a plan in BK to consolidate and shrink supply.

Its clear to me they need to default on some of their loans, and increase their cost of borrowing in the future, which will increase the opportunity cost of stock buybacks.

Banks need to stop lending low interest money to airlines, higher interest will change their behavior and decisions.

Converting a loan to equity in your business, and then asking for a bailout does not change behavior. Would you payoff your kids credit card if he had no plans to change his behavior.

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Not everyone. Just the big boys.