The Airline Industry is the most regulated unregulated taxed indusrty going...The Government will most likely not mess directly with their cash cow. And how free is a market that has cash investors like JP Morgan, AMEX, to name a few...They will tell you what your going to pay for a ticket...And if you don't pay it...They'll just liquidate the 9 Billion Dollar asset with the 4 Billion Dollar Investment.