This argument isn't convincing. Airlines have been bailed out -financially- several times before. If a suit happened to crush them, yet another infusion of taxp

This argument isn't convincing. Airlines have been bailed out -financially- several times before. If a suit happened to crush them, yet another infusion of taxpayer money to a critical piece of national infrastructure would have been made. Moreover, if the govt. was actually concerned about airline liability, they could have done for the airlines what they did for the phone companies; granted retroactive immunity for any actions taken by the airlines up to 9/11.