Re:Unneeded rhetoric (Score 1)

Most people agree that the primary cost that is driving the airlines out of business are 1) the labor costs, driven mainly by contracts with the unions that the airlines brokered during the heyday of airline, and 2) the hub-system. Both are creations of the major airlines. Other non-major carriers, such as Southwest and JetBlue, don't have the legacy labor costs hanging over their heads or the maintenance of antiquated hub systems for traffic. This has little to do with regulation and lobbyists and everything to do with decisions that the airlines made when they were flush with cash.