Sadly, the airline industry today has an almost endless list of firms to which this description can be applied. As we have seen, the structure of the industry has always been distorted by ownership and control issues, with the result that there are many more airlines in the world today than would be the case if market forces had been allowed to prevail. If ownership and control constraints are eased in the future, (which is now looking increasingly likely), many of them will not survive, especially if rules about State Aid for struggling airlines are more rigidly enforced.