After a wave of mergers, the airline industry's consolidation appears to have slowed the trend of rising capacity and damaging fare wars. Even once-skeptical investors like Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKB) Warren Buffett see the advantages that U.S. carriers now enjoy and have taken large positions in Delta Air Lines (DAL), American Airlines (AAL) and United Airlines (UAL). Still, the impacts of Covid-19 have hit airlines hard as business travel has yet to return and travel restrictions have impacted international flights.
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XWith all that, challenges to the sector remain, including the aggressive expansion of low-cost competitors - and now a merger - and the proliferation of cheap flights in the lucrative trans-Atlantic market. There have also been some signs that airlines' discipline on holding capacity in check is eroding.
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