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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Competitors Cooperate to Lower Operating Costs. Why can't Neighbouring Cities?

Published in USA TODAY, April 6, 2011
Airlines increasingly sharing space in U.S. airports
"Airlines, once jealous of their place in the nation’s airports, are learning to share. 
Airports increasingly are setting up common-use areas inside their terminals, in which several competing airlines must share agent counters and gates for domestic flights instead of having their own areas or even concourses. 
In some cases, airlines willingly agree to give way to rivals with which they aggressively compete... (Full story)
If hyper-competitive airlines can do it, are there any legitimate why neighbouring cities can't? More in the next post.

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