It doesn’t matter to me that transportation operates at a loss. It’s a good thing that people can afford to go where they need to. Maybe a stronger argument is

It doesn’t matter to me that transportation operates at a loss. It’s a good thing that people can afford to go where they need to. Maybe a stronger argument is the fact that airlines are so popular at all. High speed rail is great but air travel is still 2-3x faster over long distances, and China is a big country. If we had high speed rail in the US, people would still probably opt for air travel a lot of the time. New York to LA would take 9+ hours.