If it meant it was 6-12 months where there were drastically reduced availability of flights until everything could be structured I don't think anyone gains from that. As much as I want them to be held accountable this is just taking it out on a bunch of innocent people.
So the whole point is you can still bail them out in terms of solvency and not ruining the entire US transportations system while making it extremely "unpretty" for everyone involved.