"We all need airlines. It’s just indispensable to the country."

Airline employees want to keep jobs

A Veteran American Airlines' Flight Attendant, Avril Taylor, is lobbying Congress in favor of the American Airlines merger with U.S. Airways. She has a lot of support from the airlines' employees who fear their jobs will be lost because neither airline can now remain competitive.

Other countries want their airlines to be monopolies to assure that their flags are shown wide and far. There is no way that either U.S. airline can compete with state owned, monopolistic foreign flags unless they can first stop competing with each other.