“The ‘Big Seven’s’ money adds up to a lot of political power…The Big Seven, high-fare airlines are, right now, attempting to coerce the U.S. Congress…The Big Seven’s ‘HEAD TAX’ scheme is, in short, designed to stifle airline competition at the expense of your business.”
—advertisement entitled “Skyway Robbery” from Southwest Airlines in The Wall Street Journal, June 18, 1997, p. A5.
“Even as they take a beating from the flying public over high ticket prices, the Big Seven airlines plan to make a Presidential campaign issue out of government efforts to inject more competition into the industry.”
—Lorraine Woellert and Joan Oleck, "Flying in the Face of Common Sense?" BusinessWeek, November 9, 1998, p. 6.
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