Question 1. How does consolidation improve airlines' revenues? How might it improve their costs?
Question 2. Are there any disadvantages to the airlines consolidating?
Question 3. Why do you think Southwest Airlines is (on average) one of the most profitable of the U.S. airlines? Should it attempt to integrate with other airlines? Why or why not?
Question 4. How do the corporate strategies of U.S. domestic airline carriers (like JetBlue, Southwest, Frontier) contrast with the international carriers (like United Airlines, Delta, American Airlines)?