Originally Posted by
MatthewLAX
I'll take my $250 transcons in a deregulated market, thank you very much. Commercial air travel is not a right.
Of course you will and so will many others.
"I'll take!" I'll take!" is a very apt summary of the attitude that is taking the US as an economy and a civilized country right down with it.
There is no free lunch.
The loss on the $250 transcon is being paid by eliminating or overcharging for critical service elsewhere and by leaving the entire nation without an even halfway competitive national transportation infrastructure.
But, hey, as long as you can take yours, who cares what that costs everyone else, including your children and their grandchildren, in the long term. It's all about me, baby!