How many of the are left, in non-hybrid corporate configuration??. Certainly not British Airways, Air France, KLM, Iberia etc., who are really part of some kind of crossover development, bending backwards to satisfy shareholders ( banks??) and trying to hoodwink the customers into thinking that rationalisation is really for the customers' own good.
Given I would be paying 8-9 times the price to fly at BOAC levels of service, well done those rationalised, shareholding pleasing corporate entities. Hate to be the one to tell you this but British Airways most certainly does exist and they're doing a better job than BOAC ever did on almost any level I can think of.
Really.
Also Aer Lingus don't need a weeks wages to fly me to Dublin in order to er....still lose money somehow when they did that (!) I'd rather have a choice and pick and choose between them, which I currently do, than be forced to fly one or t'other.