Originally Posted by
jlivengo
How about when they reduce the number of shampoo's to 5 domestically, limit the distribution market to manage shipping costs, artificially deflate inventory, buyout the competition, and then up the price of their product? Basically becoming a monopoly. We're talking apples and oranges here. They couldn't survive those methods because there are billions of other shampoos to choose from not produced by P&G.
Suggest you take a look at the wikipedia pages for P&G, J&J, and Unilever, and rethink your assessment of the shampoo market.
In any case, again you're now spouting off on consolidation. Fine, it's bad, antitrust ra ra ra, whatever. My point is that the methods for price setting in the airline industry (and if you think that changing inventory numbers dynamically is somehow UA- or even legacy-specific, you're wrong) are utterly normal.