Originally Posted by
Free Bird
Just think for only 4 cab rides in Manhattan you can afford to fly from NY to Florida!
And to say that de-reg has been a success. Keeping prices low has been accomplished. The problem is that the prices that are STILL in the marketplace cannot sustain the industry. Thus All the Old big boys are gone, the current legacies have largely been through BK or they would be gone too.
If the weak were truly allowed to die, then maybe it could work in it's current form. That hasn't happened and probably never will. A de-regged industry doesn't work and probably never will.
Well, and that's just it, these free market defenders forget about how many times CAL, UAL and others have been "bailed" out buy the same free market congress.... you can't play both sides of the equation.
Either de-regulate and let them fail when they're broke, or RE-REGULATE <<--- this one!