the price was basically stable for many, many years. and that s because everybody kind of knew what everybody else was pitching and didn t want to screw up what was a gravy train. all right. now, you know, the airlines are probably right down there with used car sales, and i don t mean to besmer much used car salesmen but i m wondering what this could mean? you look at the airlines and say well, you know, there is a demand for the service and they have been shellacked before when they had too many planes chasing too few customers, now too few planes chasing too many customers. is that by design? seems to be what the justice department is saying. i don t think that s part of the design. i don t know if the investigation is focusing on that. mergers, when you have a highly competitive industry where profit margins are squeezed you re going to get mergers. that s normal. what isn t normal when you have five or four carriers. rich laid it out. controlling 80% of the traffic, right.