I think the missing piece of this analysis are the other players in the respective markets. The assumption here is that Southwest can drop elements of their service and still keep the same prices. But competition might dictate if they offered less services than their peer airlines then they would lose customers to those peer airlines. I'm not sure about Europe but perhaps there is no one close in price to Ryanair so there under little competitive pressure to increase what they provide for their price.
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I think the missing piece of this analysis are the other players in the respective markets. The assumption here is that Southwest can drop elements of their service and still keep the same prices. But competition might dictate if they offered less services than their peer airlines then they would lose customers to those peer airlines. I'm not sure about Europe but perhaps there is no one close in price to Ryanair so there under little competitive pressure to increase what they provide for their price.