Both airlines have been working behind the scenes to do something that would raise prices and limit choice.
That’s why airfares to popular cities serviced by multiple carriers often cost much less than trips to lesser-visited locations. Choice can drive down airfares as can an excess of seats.Airlines also make more money from business travelers than they do people flying for leisure. Someone taking a vacation has more flexibility when it comes to flights as they can wait until locking down their airfare before booking hotel rooms and other parts of their trip.
That makes business travel lucrative for airlines and it explains why both Southwest Airlines and American Airlines have asked the Federal Aviation Administration to step up regulation of an upstart rival. First, its passengers do not have to pass through a TSA checkpoint. They can board right on the tarmac and the airline has made part of its marketing, the idea that passengers can show as late as 20 minutes before the plane takes off.
The airline’s planes, which were built with 37 seats, offer passengers more room and a private jet-like feel because the airline has removed seven seats in order to be able to use the “public charter’ designation.
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