Originally Posted by
willy702
I'm not a fan of government intervention either but it's plain and obvious if these two go down the flying public is SCREWED! The better solution would have been the government stepping in decades ago and preventing this airline cartel we have. The comments by Kirby are chilling as hell, if he got his way we might as well go back to overpriced regulated flying.
Eh, airline ticket inflation has been WAY less than inflation in most other sectors of the economy. People love to think "we're getting screwed" by the airlines, but the facts indicate otherwise. I'd also note that the service provided by the big US airlines is better than the service provided by other large US companies, especially when you consider the complexity of their business.