GA is dying due to costs, old age and impracticality . . . Astronomy is enjoyed by more people and Dark Sky initiatives help show everyone what can be seen without light pollution ! ! !
That's the idea, not just give high profit organizations money we could be using for infrastructure, education/research, reforestation and climate change abatement. They should have their own rainy day funds. We now see where wealth comes from, not from Bootstraps . . .
We all appreciate our fellow workers and compatriots, but when Management starts to think of customers and staff as meat money bags and to herd as cattle and treat as liabilities, then it is time to change. Copying the Evil Socialist European trains would be a great start and if the Government Subsidized and Bailed Out (more than once) Free Market Airlines continue to treat customers and staff as sheep then it is time to see them go ! ! !