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Is Airline Service Awful? If So, Would More Regulation Help?

Posted on July 23, 2008

Chris Hayes wants to know why air travel is so lousy. A source inside the industry responds:Why Airline Travel Sux: Big Air Responds!, by Christopher Hayes: So I've been on a bit of a jag about how awful flying is. I've flown four of the last eight weeks and every single return trip has had some very significant problems: three cancellations and one flight delayed long enough we would have missed our connection. What gives? Megan McArdle made some good points on the general topic of complaints about air travel, which Matt added to here. I decided to email my super secret source inside a major ...

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air travel , climate change , deficit , demand , emissions