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Stubborn: it's time to get flexible.(Editorial)(airlines to operate under free-market...

By Donoghue, J.A.
Publication: Air Transport World
Date: Saturday, January 1 2005

Our fixation on internationalizing the airline industry grows with each report of multimillion-dollar losses, layoffs, agonizing labor negotiations and airlines stumbling along in a near-death state. Exactly when, we wonder, will the realization dawn that network carriers do not have a right to exist just because they are big and millions of people fly them. US and most EU airlines operate under a free-market regime in which the occasional company failure is expected.

An economic recovery alone will not ease airline anguish. In fact, right now we are smack in the middle

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