Again, the airlines' situation has nothing to do with our situation at NJA.
Of the airlines that are making money, only SWA has a model and costs that truly work, mainly through fuel hedging. Everyone else is getting hammered by fuel prices. You're right that airlines must get costs under control, but they have squeezed labor as much as they can. Like I said, if the employees of the most-strapped airlines were working for free, they'd still be losing money. The airlines need to raise airfares. Fuel costs are their largest cost, and something they have no control over, other than to raise fares to cover it. Instead, they come to the employees for more concessions. At the beginning of all of this, I could see the need for some concessions at some airlines. But it has gone way past the point of reasonable.
At some point, as a business you must charge the customer what it costs you to provide the service. Those that do will survive. Those that don't, won't.