Happy Landings
maybe price fixing was a good idea, at least you knew you'd pay the same fare on all airlines!
I'm assuming that comment is a joke.
The only reason that you can get a fare on BA for 50 quid is because of the LCA's - if the likes of Ryan and Easy were driven out of buisiness by BA (highly unlikely I know) then you can be assured that the fare would shoot up back to the £300 region.
Remember the dirty tricks BA and others got up to to drive Laker out of business when he tried to introduce low fares.