[jneal]

There is a small miscommunication here. It's America's airlines (the entire industry) not American Airlines (the company).

This article from November last year has more details: http://priceonomics.com/can-airlines-make-money/

> Overall, the industry has lost $35 billion since deregulation.

[noer]

So in the last year alone, they made back 2/3rd of what they lost in the last 30 years?

[msellout]

Nominal dollars gets tough to think about. You should probably normalize to 2015 dollars and recalculate.