How far are we willing to go to let the "market" decide. Do we let the market decide who gets harvested organs? Adoption? Medicine, hospital care? We do to a certain extent, but selling airline seats ain't like selling paper towels. If you buy acme brand paper towels, and they fall apart, you never buy them again. If the AC/Delco alternator that Gulfstream put on their airplane malfunctions in low ifr, you run into some serious circumstances.

We need to address the RLA FIRST if we are just going to let the "market" decide. The airline business is regulated for safety and logistics like no other. It is simply a fallacy to say we are going to heavily regulate one way, but de-regulate another.