AA had a spot sale from ATL to some Central American cities with $58 each way base and surcharges dropped, making total $185-205 RT a-i.

Of course, distance-wise it's closer to those places than parts of the west coast.

I think if airlines have to fill seats they'll have to drive down the all-in price one way or the other. There's still a lot of cartel-like behavior on routes without LCC competition where the idea is to limit supply and try to have that keep up airfares at high levels. Legacy airlines need a better plan than that for the long term.