[jimworcs]

Answer yes. This is exactly what happens when the regulators ignore competition rules and allow huge mega carriers to develop like Delta, particularly after the consumer has let them know what they think of them by making them bankrupt. Delta don't care about their passengers, because they don't need to. They consider themselves too big to fail and operate a series of local monopolies in hubs cities. Nothing will change... until people become politically active and demand regulation of these monoliths!