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The problem is medical inflation. I think the company is rightfully terrified about the cost of even routine medical procedures nowadays.
The doctors and hospitals and lawyers and insurance companies and drug companies, etc, etc, are totally out of control.
If medical costs are rising at 7% a year, maybe Delta should raise their prices 7% a year... oh right.
We're an airline - we can't raise our prices to compensate for increases in our material costs, like every other business out there.