Originally Posted by
Wingtips
If you think that the United States, particularly the US AIRLINE industry, is FREE MARKET ECONOMICS. Oh man you need to go back to college and take some basic civic classes.
A
free market is a
market where prices are determined by
supply and demand. Free markets contrast with
controlled markets in which prices, supply or demand is directly controlled. Various
economic theories require specific properties of free markets, for example, a
perfect market with
perfect information and
perfect competition.
Regulation which does not affect these specific properties can be in place without disqualifying the market as free under supply and demand.
Although free-markets are commonly associated with
capitalism today, free markets have been advocated by
socialists and have been included in various proposals for
market socialism where market allocation of capital is combined with self management in enterprises, and employee-owned cooperatives or publicly-owned enterprises operate in free markets.
~Bockman, Johanna (2011). Markets in the name of Socialism: The Left-Wing origins of Neoliberalisme
What were the entities then, that stopped G7 from operating and displacing mainliners? Today's ASA18 SEA-MCO fares were from $52.17 to $1,916.05. What entitiy guided this?