Can you imagine AmPlane? Always late, nasty service staff, and inedible food....
Nationalizing airlines would be the dumbest idea ever. Because it wouldn’t make another Amtrak, and Amtrak has never been successful in fighting other government agencies to try and get more money.
What makes you think that the airlines would be any more successful?
As we’re seeing in this crisis, public owned/operated hospitals seem to be the ones crying out the most for help. I’m not hearing privately held hospitals being in the same position of not having basic supplies or not enough beds.
Now, force all that government worker inefficiency on the airlines. Start with American as an experiment...