Originally Posted by
jcountry
I think the major mergers are done.
I doubt the govt will allow any one Airline to control an even higher % of the market.
I wouldn’t be surprised if maybe Alaska or Jet blue bought frontier or spirit though.
The big four control 80%, in very roughly equal shares.
The rest are fighting for scraps of the remaining 20% and will eventually all get crushed by economy of scale (and variety of uses for mileage points) if they are not allowed more mergers. There's probably room for one or two small niche ULCC to haul the trash that nobody else will touch.