mdtony -

midway has gotten a $10 million dollar chunk of taxpayer money, and has decided to take another shot at it.

richard -

can i ask where you were in late september, when i was writing any congress member and saying the same things?

the bailout was a bad idea, pushed to the front of the media's attention by the layoffs and service cuts following 9/11. the airlines expected to use the shutdown as an excuse to get the american taxpayer to bail them out for years of reckless growth and poor business practices.

thankfully, that didn't work to the point that Gordon Bethune and others hoped for. i don't think a similar bailout would happen again, so maybe we learned an expensive lesson?