The topic sound nasty yes, but the idea is to kill your money-losing national airline of choice.
The national airline you pick must already be uncompetitive and money-losing require large amount of state subsidising before POD. Bonus point if private competitors, overseas and domestics, are swampig the airline of the market. Probably reach the point that it will never make profit again for the next ten or twenty years.
Find a way to overcome union resistance, political, and national pride and make cold, hard business logics win the day.