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If the airlines could easily pass on the true cost of operation there
wouldn't be so many in or on the verge of declaring bankruptcy.

If the airlines would go bankrupt passing on the true cost of operation,
they don't deserve to be in business.

Conversely, if we as a society feel that airlines serve an important enough
part of our transportation infrastructure to justify government subsidies,
then the government ought to be regulating them as well (prices, I mean, and
other aspects of operation beyond what the FAA already does).

Pete