When an airline dies, it has an economic dimension that impacts a lot of other businesses. Some will suffer, others will benefit. But for those who lost “their” airline, the people who were in fact the airline, the failure is an emotional experience that leaves a deep, deep wound, something that may never heal completely.
Here are a few pictures of leave-taking taken just before the leased 737s took off for Shannon on their last MAH flight. The empty cabin is especially telling… with the flight plan showing a payload of 00000.
