While proponents of deregulation point to lower fares between high density hubs, these bargains are subsidised by exorbitantly high fares for flights between the thousands of smaller cities across the country.
Figure 2 in the accompanying power point file shows historical storage areal density (AD) growth for HDDs (this is directly related to the amount of digital storage that can be put on a disk in a hard disk drive) from Q1 2000 through Q1 2011.