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...Airways stopped flying to the area last December. Essential air service is a federal program formed in the wake of airline deregulation in the late 1970s to subsidize air service to areas that carriers drop when they are no longer profitable. The...
...herded and harried like cattle, to feed investors' demands for higher profits, passengers are the fall guys of airline deregulation. It has bred not competition but monopoly. Fewer airlines, higher fares, less comfort. Once coveted pilots...
...live within 120 miles to major hub airports and so bypass EAS flights. He said the program originated because airline deregulations inspired Congress to subsidize carriers to service small communities "at a loss because otherwise no sane business...
...deregulation frequently results in higher corporate profits as they take advantage of having to follow fewer rules. Airline deregulation lowered prices in competitive markets, for example, but often at the expense of higher prices in small areas...
...deregulation frequently results in higher corporate profits as they take advantage of having to follow fewer rules. Airline deregulation lowered prices in competitive markets, for example, but often at the expense of higher prices in small areas...
...Department of Transportation Web site, "The Airline Deregulation Act, passed in 1978, gave airlines almost total...to small communities that were served prior to airline deregulation." To qualify now, according to the federal DOT...
...practice that keeps some fares low. ``These restricted fares have really revolutionized the way people travel since airline deregulation,'' he said. Lawyer files suit over Alaska Airlines tickets
...ways, the roots to the problem date back to the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. In general, this act was, and...in greed than in regulation.'' Proponents of airline deregulation believed that deregulation would bring down prices...