I believe a one point this was tried. Or something similar. I have no proof or link to prove it but, I think at one time the airlines got togther and agreed that they would all charge X amt of dollars and no lower. This lead to some pretty high fares and the courts got involved and found that it was against the law for them to do that. I believe it is called Collusion. I can't say its a bad thing unless your a consumer. From a business and employee standpoint it could pretty good because instead of competing for the lowest fare through employee givebacks, bankruptcies they could compete through service. IE: more incentive for employees to do a better job for better pay. Again could be wrong but it is something I just heard. Oh, not sure when this happened either.