Ed, I agree with you that airlines seem to be in cahoots with one another. When you compare airfares they are within a dollar of one another and stay that way. No one airline seems to want to drop prices. You and I both know that the only way they will come down is if no one books with any of them .... but then we both know that will not happen so the waiting game usually prevails for the airlines and all we consumers do is gripe!