We investigate the success of legislation aimed at increasing competition at highly concentrated major US airports …, mainly by forcing these airports to increase the availability of scarce airport facilities to new entrants. We use a multi … a statistically and economically significant decrease in fares resulting from an airport's coverage, 13.4% (20.2%) in …

evidence of predatory conduct. We examine how major airlines behave in three scenarios: (1) major airline vs. major airline; (2 …) major airline vs. Southwest Airlines; and (3) major airline vs. small low-cost/low-fare airline. It is in the third category … efforts of the world's largest airline to monopolize one of the world's largest airports.4. The fourth section of this essay …

early 1999, not a single new airline began service. New entrants like Air South, Pan Am (which included Carnival Airlines … Everglades, in May of 1996. The U.S. Department of Transportation [DOT] had been a champion of the competition brought to bear by …'s largest airline, United, allegedly targeted Frontier and Western Pacific. American allegedly set its sights on Vanguard …