[aabeshou]

one option is to bail them out but with strings attached. Demand concessions that are good for labor and for the consumer public in exchange for the bailout. Don't just let them put all savings into pockets of executives and shareholders (while promoting "ration and save/pull yourself by bootstraps" ideology to the poor, of course) then run crying to the taxpayers because they're too big to fail.

[neaden]

Or to just nationalize them, many other countries have government owned airlines.

[rafiki6]

best time to do something like this too