Originally Posted by
cmd320
I don't understand the incessant need for single carriers to serve every corner of the map. A deeper partnership with AS should be sufficient. I very much hope we don't see any more mergers allowed. There have been two too many at this point IMO.
I respectfully disagree. I prefer to fly one airline on a given ticket. When I'm connecting between airlines, it adds for more potential issues, especially if a mis-connect occurs and then each airline blames the other. When I'm dealing with one airline, there's no one to bounce the ball to when problems occur.
That's not to say that I won't ever have multi-airline tickets. Sometimes I need to because of where I'm going or just because of the significantly cheaper price. However, in an ideal world, I'd stick with one airline if I could. So seeing AA/US add more destinations to portions of the map they are sorely lacking in would be a good thing to me.
Just my 2 cents.