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"Should a carrier established in one country be allowed to offer wages typical of another?"

The chief concern is safety.

America's airline industry especially with the consolidations of United buying Continental and American buying US Airways is dysfunctional. We have no equivalent of Ryan Air or EasyJet in the US and we should.

US domestic carriers should strive to compete with Norwegian offering their prices and stop complaining.

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We do have low-cost carriers like Spirit & Frontier airlines.

I know somebody who was in a long-distance Washington DC - Florida relationship and was able to get $20-$40 round-trip flights for weekend trips pretty regularly.

Well from NYC, both of the airlines fly out of LGA and Spirit also out of Newark, but I've never, never seen fares anything that are better than the other carriers that I get through Kayak or other sites. Never.

NYC SFO July 11 to 20 RT is about $330 to $350 on Spirit, Frontier, and Kayak (with better carriers).

They are not comparable to EasyJet and Ryan Air which does offer substantially lower fares.

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