Originally Posted by AAaLot
It stills seems like the free market would be better at determing who should fly to where when.
Yes, the (world's) allocation of resources would be more efficient with a free market approach, but the political aspects must be considered too. Firstly, countries want to ensure that their own nationals have employment working for their own nation's airline. There are also taxation issues, with profits accruing in the home country as opposed to foreign, etc. etc.