Originally Posted by
Zomba
No kidding. TCON flyers have no right to complain when those routes actually have legit competition. They should try living in the Midwest where you often pay that much for a 300 mile flight (on mainline AC).
It's not transcon routes that suffer from lack of competition (you can fly eight or so different carriers from JFK to LAX/SFO). Pointless example. It's the 500-700 mile feeder routes in and out of hubs that are at risk. Each time a player gets knocked off the chess board, it gets easier for the remaining airlines to cut frequencies, hike prices, tell you to drive or stay home if you don't like it, and drive out new challengers with temporary fare wars. That's not "stabilizing the industry," it's leveraging cartel economics, and I find it weird that so many frequent flyers root for it (and against their own interests).