American Airlines

<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/as-covid-19-cases-spike-right-wing-activists-plan-national-rallies-to-combat-radical-leftists/">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/as-covid-19-cases-spike-right-wing-activists-plan-national-rallies-to-combat-radical-leftists/</a>straker mask6. American AirlinesLike banking and telecommunications, air travel is an industry that has been plagued by more and more consolidation. In 2013, American Airlines became the world’s largest airline when it merged with U.S. Airways (which had merged with America West in 2005). Other big airline mergers of the last five years have included the Delta/Northwest and United/Continental mergers—and now, 85% of the U.S. air travel market is <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-09/business/chi-american-airlines-merger-20131209_1_us-airways-ceo-ceo-doug-parker-united-airlines" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">dominated by only four airlines</a> [9]: American, United, Delta and Southwest (widely regarded as the most consumer-friendly of the four). To understand how bad all these mergers are for consumers, one need only look at a study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which found that from 2007-2012, airlines in the United States <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323687604578469160553588132" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">cut the number of domestic flights by 14%</a> [10]. The more companies like American are allowed to reduce competition, the worse it will be for consumers in terms of price, convenience and <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/10/us-airlines-complaints-idUSBREA391TL20140410" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">customer service</a> [11].