414Flyer
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Your advice would also be illegal too. If the airlines got together to coordinate raising of prices, government would also come down on them pretty hard and rightfully so. Price fixing and monopolies are not compatible with free market and competion.rvsm410 said:You know many other industries have alliances with each other and still compete at the same time. Oil companies, Rx, many more...none of them are loosing money...
People will always fly, some will balk at increade fares...so.....we all balk at higher gas prices, taxes, a laof of bread anad a gallon of milk....so we stop buy them because they went up on price NO......
Tha same for ALL the airlines....RAISE THE DARN FARES TO A PROFIETABLE LEVEL, The airlines need to form there own alliance to protect the fares....so what if the LCC dont join...many people are sick and tried of the routine they must endure at a SWA or Airtran gate to get somewhere......If the airlines in this alliance were to go on a 1 month shut down, the LCCs could not carry all of them, the lines and over bookings would be terrible and they would plead for someone to do something to get more people back in the air...
AIR TRAVELERS NEED A WAKE-UP CALL..... EVERYONE RAISE THE PRICES
How is that this industry has not followed suit with everything else we buy everyday??? its got to stop, NOW stop taking form the employees, make the people pay the tab as they do everywhere else...
Auto gas prices went throught the roof this summer, we complained and then went out and filled up the SUV so we could continue our life style.....
I am sure if GM/Ford/Chrysler all announced one day there were acting in unison and upping the price of autos together, by a fixed amount, there would be a big outcry, even on here.
While thinking if the airlines just raised prices together would solve problems, and while it may in the short term, it still would not be a long term solution and would only put off the problems they are facing.
While I certainly do not want to see the legacy carriers go away, I also would not support a price cartel to prop them up either.
That would be a very bad road to go down too. can you imagine what would happen after that? Every company out there having problems would demand the same thing.