Originally Posted by
mgcsinc
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.
Price setting is normal, no doubt about it. When in collusion with competing entities, then you have a problem.
I'm talking about inflation related to the price setting by manipulating supply & demand. Consolidation is the easiest example to identify. There is direct evidence that the Delta-Northwest & United-Continental mergers have increase fares on hub routes. Up to 30% in some cases. What I'm saying is that airlines are providing the same kind of manipulation within the aircraft itself when blocking off 30-40% of the seats in an attempt to increase revenue. These days you have so many ancillary fees airlines are finding new & old methods of pushing those on the consumer.