Several years ago (with much more competition) many (most?) US carriers were (nearly) bankrupt; now with only 3 BIG alliances all VERY profitable AA wants to "turn the screw tighter" on its pax--it is NOW time for legislation to reign in the airlines, USA261 is needed.
Actually, the time was several years ago when the government should have disallowed the AA/US merger, if not also UA/CO (and heck, maybe DL/NW).
Not to get politically OT, but this was one of the bigger foul-ups of the Obama’s administration IMO (DL/NW was Bush though IIRC), and evidence that corporations/big money own Dems too...