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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 10:12 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by chad75:
United can charge whatever they like - but a comfortable duopoly keeps the prices up.

I'm not 100% sure but doesn't CO still have the rights to fly to Sydney if it wants?

I think the beauty of capitalism doesn't apply to any countries airline industry - including the US.</font>
So basically US-SYD is controlled by some kind of air treaty or something? US gets to have one airline fly down there; they get one airline to fly here? I guess I'm not surprised, given that we've got such arrangements with most other countries, but it still stinks. Seems like BOTH governments would want to allow more airlines to fly and reduce the price, thus promoting business and trade.
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