"General Motors is an excellent recent example of how, with the right hand-picked team in place, a company near the brink of extinction can make a complete turnaround. General Motors emerged from a federal bailout to announce on February 17th, 2012, their largest profit in their 103 year history of $7.6 billion."

I did a little back of the envelope calculation a while ago. If the government gave AAL the same per capita gift that it gave GM, AAL could replace all planes except the new 777's and 737's.

We would be talking about AAL's amazing profit recovery. I suspect Horton ( Who...sorry.......) could handle that.