All this focus upon the "airlines"....merely a smoke screen to keep the focus off the real problem....and that is not the "airlines". I would suggest the Prez should be putting his own house in order first before pointing fingers at the symptoms of the problem.
Let's hear about the infrastructure and its problems....Approach Control without any Radar, airports without operable approach aids or approach systems, airport physical security issues....runway maintenance.....weather reporting...the lack of effective oversight of the overseers....nope..let's focus on the airlines themselves....afterall...they are easy targets.