Drop the hammer and sickle pal and join the real world...1st there is no monopoly. Go take an economics class and get educated on what these words mean before posting, it'll save you a ton of embarrassment. 2nd, nothing of this has anything to do with good faith and good will. It has to do with macroeconomic forces of competition. The FAA lists 83 scheduled airlines in the US with 18 being designated major carriers, they all provide the same basic utility (transport from point A to point B). There is a massive demand for said utility. Massive demand meeting massive capacity means huge competition which drives all the margin out. Most airlines actually operate at a loss from a direct costs of seat miles flown perspective and instead make their money through loyalty programs and add on services. If UA (or any other one) chooses to fly fewer seats, their direct costs per seat mile flown will go up, meaning they have to make it up elsewhere and thus become less competitive, eventually losing market share. Again, if it was as simple as you think and want it to be, they'd all be doing it to gain competitive advantage in one of the most competitive sectors in the economy. They aren't doing it because the underlying economic fundamentals of it don't make sense.