Rumors.
It's not just because Alaska Airlines has the name of my state on it (even if it is headquartered in Seattle.)
It's not just because Alaska has been relatively good as US airlines go. (even if it has taken advantage of its monopoly in the rest of the state.)
It's not just because we travel a lot to visit my mom and have learned how to best use Alaska to travel.
It's not just because Delta screwed us over in the very worst way once - canceling our trip to Thailand at the very last minute without telling us. Our travel agent (yeah it was that long ago) checked and found it out and after lots of trouble was able to rebook us on Korean (the flight we were originally booked on with Delta tickets). And then on the way back, they again changed our tickets, flying my wife out of Thailand two days after her connecting flight out of Seoul (yes that makes it hard to make a connection) and wouldn't let us fly the Seoul - Anchorage Korean flight, but forced us to go Seoul - San Francisco - Salt Lake City - Anchorage adding over 24 hours to our trip home.
It's because when there's no anti-trust enforcement, all the good smaller companies get bought up by the less good bigger ones and then there's just a few big companies, there's no competition. Even if they don't collude, they just copy each other and adjust prices up, add all kinds of extra fees, and generally screw over their customers. There's nothing good that could come out of this for consumers.
No, no, no.
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