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Why are the airlines always in a crisis

Everyone has a horror story about air travelcancellations delays lost baggage tiny seats poor service In this day and age there is no reason that flying should be this bad In Why Flying Is Miserable Ganesh Sitaraman a law professor and policy expert explains how this happened It was a conscious choice made by Washington in the 1970s to roll back many forms of regulation that began during the New Deal in the name of unimpeded capitalism and more competition Today the industry is an oligopoly with only four toobigtofail airlines that have received billions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts and still cant offer reliable service

Miserable air travel is the perfect symbol of the type of unregulated capitalism that America has unleashed But there are ways to fix airlinesand by extension many other sectors of industrybecause after a halfcentury run people are sick and tired of the turbulence that deregulation has brought to our economy