Originally Posted by
FirstClass
I don't think that is what this is about. This is about whether the Sherman Act was violated. Companies are not allowed to get together and do things for the purpose of price fixing.
The "sherman act" can't force airlines to barf growth capacity into markets for the purpose of destroying their own yields for the transient benefit of populist lower fares.
I suppose that if, and its a big if, they can somehow prove that they were acting in an illegal manner (actual collusion) then maybe they can have a case, but that's going to be very hard to prove. The airlines have been extremely up front and honest about their capacity dicipline for over half a decade. This is just populist grandstanding idiocy. And a huge LOL for all the pilots longing for the days of subsidized 3 pilot empty 727 service to tiny communities. That ain't coming back. Ever.