And in other equally surprising news, the sun still sets in the west. 😀
Dunno which list you're looking at (no link) but here's a CNN-Fortune mag list of the top 100 places to work in 2012 and there isn't a single airline on the list (which isn't very surprising):
One feature that most of these companies have in common? Almost none of them has ever filed a Ch 11 petition. Generally, companies in capital-destroying industries where almost all of the participants has been bankrupt at least once are not considered great places to work. Imagine that.