Experts are predicting a reduction in the number of domestic flight routes by nearly 10%:

By year’s end, roughly 100 American communities will be left without regular commercial air service, and that number may double next year, according to the Air Transport Association, the industry trade group.

Realizing I may not be the most savvy-business mind to grace this world, how precisely the air industry continues to lose money, year after year, is a mystery to me.