They may still be financially viable enough, and I’d more than welcome to see what happens in the aftermath of instituting a more consumer-friendly mandate on higher minimum seating comfort standards and other inclusions for all US flight passengers.

When major airline industry cartel kingpins say or act as if passenger demand is highly inelastic, then let’s just see how inelastic it is in the aftermath of mandating things like minimum seat width, seat bottom size, leg space and so on.