For the 2 weeks following the disaster, travel agencies were operating at crisis levels with little or no revenue. That is a thin margin business to begin with.

They need a share of that 15 billion.

How >that< would get distributed is beyond me...there's so many of them.

Most just want guaranteed short term loans to cover short term cash flow.

I'll agree, though, there's alot of money going to places that it should not be going.

Airlines needed the relief...but to think they were being well managed before the crisis is a mistake.

They were spending alot of time and money bitching about airport capacity shortages..when they were running smaller planes more often on rotes that should have had bigger planes less frequently. Who in God's name needs 18 flights a day non stop Philly Chicago. All half full or less (except the rushhour morning and evening flights)

I better stop before I get further into a rant about airline mismanagement.