Unsurprisingly, the airlines aren't doing too well right now. I'll be looking for another round of bankruptcies before too long, as companies try to shed suddenly-unprofitable routes--which means planes, debt, and labor.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.