Bigger Losses!

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the airlines, or at least most, or many, or some, will continue to lose money in the forseeable future.
This is not at all unusual. Most air carriers actually make their living off government subsidies anyway (the new GM business model). However, it need not be so. Airlines could easily return to profitability, even with the reduced passenger load, with one simple change. Charge by the Wheel for "Carryon Luggage. Let the Oh-So-Modern travellers who disdain to actually carry their carry on luggage, or put backpacks on their backs, pay the freight, as it were. After all, they already seem willing to go to considerable extra expense and effort to affix wheels (Wheels! - OH MY!) to objects ill-suited to them. The only good part about all this wheeled luggage, making up in some small way for the damage they do to unwary travellers ankles, is watching the physically-challenged passengers trying to hoist the ovesized and overweight "Hand Carry Bag" into the overhead rack. Why so many find it needful to travel with more of their stuff than most people on the planet possess is a topic for another day.