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I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I feel like the best thing that could happen to the airline industry in the US is a legitimate, modern high speed rail system or other ground transit like hyperloop. Anything that takes shorter flights to big metros out of the equation will likely help.
Philly to Buffalo is about 280 miles. Bullet trains do 185-200 mph for the most part. There's really no necessary stopping point between those two cities. Philly to Denver or LA makes sense by plane. Philly to Buffalo, NYC, Pittsburgh, etc really doesn't. The obvious flaw with this idea is that the high speed rail plans all have Philly as part of a Boston to DC line and a separate line from NYC through Albany and then across upstate NY. That puts the trip around 480 miles with probably 4 stops.
Build a real ground system and let the airlines focus on the longer trips. Charge prices that make sense for those and provide the kind of customer service that those prices warrant.
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