Originally Posted by jsloan

While I'm not particularly in favor of the idea of a AA+UA merger, I don't think it would create that much of a stranglehold on the US market -- you'd still have DL, AS, and WN, and you'd probably see one or two new entrants try to move in. And I don't think that the fact that most foreign airlines have little domestic competition is really a particularly big problem for the US3 -- except for China, no other country has a domestic market that even approaches the US market. SQ doesn't have a position of market leadership because it lacks competition in the domestic Singapore market.