Originally posted by fishing flyer:
Let's hope they stay healthy and expand. They're our best insurance of keeping service and prices competitive. Next, would be having Congress permit foreign carriers to compete on domestic routes. Then we'd really see some competition.
I would be surprised to see the US granting free trade rights to non-US airlines.
US stance on free trade generally is to make it as free as possible abroad (to allow the US to compete) and to make it as restrictive as possible at home to prevent competition.
Virgin and BA would both love to run US domestic routes.
Stephen