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536. Is Your Plane Ticket Too Expensive — or Too Cheap?

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Do You Want to Own an Airline or an Airport?

Delta CEO Ed Bastian says airline consolidation has been a great success for consumers. He would like to see more protection of competition and fares, however. Delta Northwest is now twice the size it was 10 years earlier. It's hard to find an industry that hasn't undergone big time consolidation.

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