Unless more liberals are elected to Congress, I do not foresee any economic regulation of the airline industry like what occurred in the past (i.e. prior to the Airline Deregulation Act) David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 22:12 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] Deregulation & Anti-trust Laws > In a message dated 12/8/03 2:41:33 PM Pacific Standard Time, kurtzke@xxxxxx > writes: > > > Maybe the coming thing in airlines is many airlines (from Southwest, > > the recent startups, and the pieces of the coming bankrupt majors), > > more point to point service, and a return of regulation. > > probably not. Regulation would harm WN and the others as they would no > longer be able to ply any route they saw fit. Would also suck for our pocket > books. I am a fan of safety regulation, not choice limiting regulation