Nothing personal taken, or given.
Believe me I understand their position. I also understand how that position has been literally forced upon them.
We can argue all day about who is to blame for this situation, the bottom line is that everyone is to blame. Those who brought these schemes into being, those who did nothing to stop them happening (although you indicate that efforts to stop them have since failed) and those that partook in them.
I'm not talking about an action against an individual airline as you've mentioned but a complete cessation of these pathetic contracts and deals.
They only exist now because they keep getting fed. Yes they should have been stopped before they started but that isn't the only way to skin a cat. Chop it's head off, now!