Airlines made $25 billion in profit in 2015, on about $169 billion in total revenue. Doesn't seem razor-thin to me. (A few years before, airlines generally we

Airlines made $25 billion in profit in 2015, on about $169 billion in total revenue. Doesn't seem razor-thin to me. (A few years before, airlines generally were barely eking it out, but that was in a time of high oil prices. The recent collapse in the price of fuel has been very, very good to them.) Cite: http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/03/news/companies/airline-profits-2015/ http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/03/news/companies/airline-profi...