You must be one of those who doesn’t have a clue about business but any merger is lack of competition dogma Republicans.
When the entire Airline industry is losing money, do you want the Govt. to Nationalize it or not have an Airline industry all together?
They can’t cut costs without cutting out the blubber.
There will always be smaller Airlines who would operate in their niche markets and prosper.
They lose money due to a bad business model with the knowledge that if they fail that the government will bail them out.
As for your smaller airlines, two have gone under in the last month and Frontier is circling the drain.