Originally Posted by
Preemo
The stock price has barely moved. This is the true scandal here.
United is impregnable on many routes - the merger with Continental should never have been allowed to happen. Along with the likes of Walmart, Citibank and Comcast, through the utterly corrupt political system now in place in the USA, trusts are on the rise. Domestic carriers in the USA are now pseudo-trusts.
All this guff upthread about being in a consumer market, people voting with their feet etc, is a fundamental misreading of the situation. Stockholders understand though.
That you can batter one of your customers, have it seen around the world, and your stockholders continue on as if nothing has happened? Citizens United really has made big company's utterly untouchable.