Originally Posted by
Softpayman
The mid 2030s are an eternity from now...especially in the airline business. Think of where things were 10 years ago now, 2015. Every few years the deck will be reshuffled unless of course you think the deck has been whittled down via bankruptcies and mergers to the final "too big to fail" pieces.
This is my thinking. Sure the remaining players will come and go but the top 4 will control 75% market share for the long term. Yes UA might leapfrog DL and the ranking will change among UA/DL/AA/WN but in 10 yrs it will still be these same carriers at the top.