The airline industry is certainly going through some hard times, and I just don’t see them turning things around any time soon. I think that the way things are going, trains are going to be back in style within the next few decades, and the airline industry is going to have to scale back considerably. They just aren’t providing value to their customers very much anymore.

I don’t know how airline companies make their numbers work out. (If they do work out at all that is) But I do know that there must be a lot of politics and under-the-table deals going on that prevent them from taking any simple solutions. It seems to me that if they aren’t filling up their planes, that they need to just stop flying as many planes at once, and offer some transparency. They aren’t fooling anyone anymore with their hidden fees. All they are doing is upsetting people and making Greyhound buses and Amtrak trains seem better and better.