Opinion Piece By Former AA Big Cheese

An op-ed piece from The New York Times on the airline situation from Robert Crandall, former AA CEO:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/opinion/21crandall.html?_r=1&em&ex=1208923200&en=cfa360a9f1faacf1&ei=5087&oref=slogin

Be sure to read the comments section, which has a number of interesting counterpoints.

As for the kiddie book illustration, that’s often the aviation mentality of the Times, which once stated that SAC was set up during WW2 to bomb Germany.