Originally Posted by
ksweeney
Government pushing prices down via blocking this merger only works as long as the carriers remain in business. .....
If the government wishes to keep fares down by favoring UA and DL over AA and US, it might succeed for a while but what if AA and US fail? ......
Blocking this merger might have made more sense had they also blocked DL/NW and UA/CO.
+1
See the "SW effect" after they knocked the competition out