Jerry Palmer
The megamergers of nine airlines into four-American, United, Delta, and Southwest- have produced an affect where passengers are paying ore as airlines fear little of the repercussions for their additional fee and price gouging in an era with such reduced competition. The justice department though will now be investigating whether these four airlines collude to raise rates and kept capacity low by refusing to add new fleets into their company despite increased demand for air flight. The fact that this increased frequent flying is because of the corporate spending that goes unabated is an other issue we can talk for a time later but what I really wan t to discuss is the disregard for peoples home airports only being dominated by one or two carriers. Could it be this unabated corporate spending is the cause to as why there is such little concern about this oligopoly that has emerged since this industry was deregulated? Could the reason that many of these people don't care that domestic fares have increased so much higher than inflation is that they work in major oligolpoly industries that can raise the prices with continuous business corporate spending so their workers can remain global and competitive. The time has come to break up thes ehuge airlinesthat once again are increasing prices and fees so that only the upper ten percent can use and usually past the cost to the consumer in form of higher prices their companies have to charge for products and an obvious way to stop this would be have a two-tier cost program and increase costs for business frequent flying and lower cost for consumer vacation consumers and users who use it outside of business and need lower costs for travel to visit relatives and so forth. This is an industry that raked in 19.7 billion in sick profits and does its best to keep costs high and harder for the average person to use their product. these four companies dominate eighty percent of the domestic travel and is high time to see some competition to break this up and offer something positive to consumers than another big time oligopoly industry in their cruddy country.
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