Comments on: What the US Airways and American Airlines merger means for travelers

By: Ken Morris

Ken Morris — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 04:44:00 +0000

So we have two bankrupt airlines merging into one bigger bankrupt airline. Even though I’m from there, I’ll never understand why the US pretends that transportation can be managed by the market. It never is and almost never was any time in world history. Every major airline is flying under bankruptcy protection, the auto companies get periodically bailed out and subsidized out the yin yang, and the trains are a government project, yet Americans keep falling all over themselves trying to let the CEOs work it out. Whatever. My solution is not to go anywhere I can’t walk to.

By: P mattingly

P mattingly — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:33:00 +0000

Mergers like this are always about money…nothing else. Less competition always leads to higher prices. Why? Because they can. The face that the airlines shows to the public is that ‘nothing will change.’ When the truth is that they do the merger of two broken airlines (which doesn’t make a good one) to make more money. They will make more money by eliminating unnecessary work force and raising prices since before there may have been two airlines flying the route that had to compete for customers and not the route has only one airline.
Mergers like this are NEVER good for the public.