Deregulation: finishing the job; fourteen years after airline deregulation began, it has more critics than supporters.

From: National Review | Date: November 2, 1992| Author: | Copyright information

Deregulation of the airlines has been hindered by the lack of innovative airport management and effective air-traffic control (ATC) policy. Deregulation should continue and airports and ATC operations should be privatized.

WITH THREE airline failures last year (Eastern, Midway, and Pan American) and record-high losses, the airlines have been singing the blues. And critics of airline deregulation now span the spectrum, from Left to Right.

Neo-liberal Larry Eichel, in The Washington Monthly, characterized deregulation as "high prices, old planes, bad maintenance, and layovers in ...

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