"To their fiery surprise, they lost big time and 58,000 fire-benders lost their lives as well (though to be sure they each got an engraved line on that spiffy black wall in Imperial City β 'cause in the Fire Nation there's always a prize in every box of flaming fire flakes).
They should have another class on airlines that's extra cheap in return for having psychic and physical tortures used on you for the sick satisfaction of the flight crew