Originally Posted by AAaLot
It stills seems like the free market would be better at determing who should fly to where when.
There is ways to assign ownership to gates / times / etc. so companies interested in specific times / gates / locations could buy them from each other.
I just wonder how the travel landscape would look under true competition.
Airlines are probably the last industry in the world that have and ever will embrace globalization and free trade. That, however, is a 50 page article onto itself.
The point that I am getting at is that as much as gates can be dealt like commodities (which they are), there isn't enough to go around for the ideal times. I can create an airline and easily get gates faster than anyone else if I took the scraps, like the 2pm arrivial time, but if that means my plane leaving the origin at 3 am departure, I'm boned. Know what I mean? Charter airlines do that, and look how much respect they have...