Originally Posted by UnitedSkies
Independence Air doesn't get it - driving down airfares to cause higher-cost competitors to be unprofitable is fine - fair competition, that is, if you have a cost structure that enables you to be profitable. I have not seen anywhere that Independence Air's cost structure is anywhere near low enough to sustain such fares.
This is exactly right. Sorry, but Indy's attempt at driving fares so low is just driving them right into the ground themselves. UA and US aren't going anywhere. They're not reducing WAS area service, and in fact both carriers are countering the attack with expansion (i.e. US's new DCA service to ATL, CLE, IAH, DTW, etc etc)