Originally Posted by
exfocx
I think some don't quite understand what "welcoming competition" doesn't mean; it doesn't mean helping out someone who is gunna try to cut your lunch for you! The big 2 are likely to help each other because they are likely to both gain from it. What was Tiger able to do for QF?
Behaving like an oligopoly was not the intent of deregulation.
In fact, the revocation of the two airline policy was expressly designed to stop the incumbents "helping each other out"
Other than colluding on pricing and giving lifts to the opposition, the industry decades after deregulation is precisely the same as before; Two airlines