<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by travel48:
...by the way, wasn't the huge subsidy Congress gave the airlines supposed to negate the needs for so many drastic cuts in service that the airlines have been dumping on us?) Does anybody have any answers?
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Note that even including the bailout the airlines received from the government they still lost hundreds of millions of dollars. Ie: Delta lost $295 million in the 3rd quarter. I'm certainly not trying to justify them living off the government teat, but it didnt cover all of their loses pre or post 9/11.