The problem is that US airlines have a monopoly on domestic travel. In aviation this is known as cabotage. Because US airlines do not have to fear competition from external airlines, the larger carriers do not see a need to improve service standards or lower prices. It is actually a very interesting fact that at the time of the 1944 Chic…
The problem is that US airlines have a monopoly on domestic travel. In aviation this is known as cabotage. Because US airlines do not have to fear competition from external airlines, the larger carriers do not see a need to improve service standards or lower prices. It is actually a very interesting fact that at the time of the 1944 Chicago Convention which sought to liberalize air travel, the US who sought unlimited third (freedom to travel from one's home country to a foreign country), fourth (freedom to travel from a foreign country back to one's home country), and fifth (freedom to travel from one's home country, stopover in a foreign country and unload and taken on passengers and cargo before flying to another foreign country) freedoms, the US was unwilling to relent on cabotage (domestic travel, for instance between New York and Utah).
The problem is that US airlines have a monopoly on domestic travel. In aviation this is known as cabotage. Because US airlines do not have to fear competition from external airlines, the larger carriers do not see a need to improve service standards or lower prices. It is actually a very interesting fact that at the time of the 1944 Chicago Convention which sought to liberalize air travel, the US who sought unlimited third (freedom to travel from one's home country to a foreign country), fourth (freedom to travel from a foreign country back to one's home country), and fifth (freedom to travel from one's home country, stopover in a foreign country and unload and taken on passengers and cargo before flying to another foreign country) freedoms, the US was unwilling to relent on cabotage (domestic travel, for instance between New York and Utah).