Reason #1 government subsidies of airlines must end. They need to open the airline industry up to competition, instead of giving the big companies a crutch on which to rely. You can be sure if the airlines were totally private this whole mess of the last week wouldn't have gone down. They would've had contingency plans because they have to or go under. Instead we've got huge, bloated inefficient entities that can't even manage to figure out where your luggage is going.