Does Air India really deserve the bailout money?

We all know the top 3 Airlines in India (Air India, Jet Airways, Kingfisher) all are running in red and now Air India wants Rs 10,000 crores ($2 Billion) of tax payers bailout money. My question is does Air India really deserve the bailout money? What has the airline done in the past 20 years to keep itself as the pioneer airline from India. There are series of mis-management from aircraft maintenance, unprofessional and lazy staff to old aircrafts and bad service. Should the government do what its best usage is - ie, govern instead of running airlines. Should'nt the airlines actually learn from Indian Railways in terms of competition and keeping it real.
I read an interesting blog by Rajesh Kalra in times of india - mentioning about freeloaders. I completely agree with this view point - with bunch of politicians getting freebees from the airlines how can it actually ever be competitive.
Here's my two cents on what the government should do
1) Privatize the Air India, Air India Express, India Airlines brands - bring in better management from airline industry to run the company, make accountability and profitability as number one priority.
2) Provide interim bailout money for the purpose of transitioning the airline from government run agency to making it a private company
3) revamp the service offerings, better services, more rounded routes, better codeshare partnerships, trim down the new excessive aircraft orders to only the ones required to replace the oldest fleet.
4) hire a world class firm to redo its logistics and ROI model for capacity planning and routing. Jointly operate maintenance with in-house and outsource firms (transition to better quality resources)
5) Re-define services - hopefully if the airline gets privatized the staff would have to retrain to earn their salary. (if they can only learn from peer airlines - Jet, Kingfisher, GoAir, Spice). Make staff more accountable and remove the government job status.
6) No Political Interference - dis-allow freeloaders like politicians, friends and family. Let them buy the tickets thru regular channels and make their spending and travel more transparent to the general public.
7) Finally actually compete with the other airlines on the basis of quality of service rather than sheer fleet size and shadow of government regulations.

How does the next generation traveler does his vacation planning.

Here's my two cents on the next generation traveler vacation planning process. {disclaimer: I consider myself as a savvy next gen traveler.}. So here's the detailed process of what I do before I plan a vacation.
Deciding Location/hotel
* check friends facebook photo albums - browse thru these, comment on the ones that look awesome - send friend an email on information
* check out tripadvisor for reviews - check out all the negative reviews - make my own conclusions.
* check out photos on tripadvisor - lookout for photos which show more information - specifically room photos - its an eye opener how different some of these look from marketing photos on hotel website.
* browse thru quickly on thorntree(lonely planet) for tips.

Next booking process
* kayak for air, hotel - bookmark the ones for prices that look good.
* google hotel check out what shows up.
* consolidate all information --> go to hotel/air direct site check out the difference - if not much then book directly.

Next plan the information - check out DMO sites bookmark information - post comment on facebook - review comments from friends
* checkout yelp for reviews on restaurants - bookmark good ones
* google for activity in local areas.
* post comment on thorntree - see what turns up on info for logistics.

Finally - download info on iphone, print info as pdfs docs - upload on google docs and think we are done.

On Vacation/Post Vacation
* post updates on twitter/facebook while vacationing
* post random pictures on facebook - have fun with good comments from friends.
* after trip - create album in facebook - upload pictures in flickr, upload videos in youtube. share all in facebook.
* try to remember everything and post a blog.

Now - if only I could do all of this on my iphone - well maybe we (XYKA) needs to write an app for this!