This was completely expected: while Uber and Lyft can mostly carry out arbitrage against the patchwork of local regulations on taxi services across the country, air travel is federal and there are no conflicting local rules to take advantage of at different times, just the FAA saying &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot; nationwide.<p>And it also shouldn&#x27;t be controversial: everybody knows Uber and Lyft are taxi services, despite their occasional &quot;we&#x27;re not a taxi, honest&quot; dodges, and doing the same with aircraft... makes you an airline, and trying to go back and pull a &quot;we&#x27;re not an airline, honest&quot; is not going to fly.