Deregulation’s downside


Individuals and entire cities have been “left economically stranded” by the deregulation of the airline industry, says Lynn Stuart Parramore in AlterNet. “Increased competition without adequate regulation is not much better than monopoly conditions,” she says.


Categories: airlines
Jay Jochnowitz

3 Responses

  1. RolloMartins says:

    Who in their right minds (who have actually flown recently) thinks deregulation was a good thing?

  2. sme says:

    The airline industry is now free to get away with whatever it wants.

  3. EriK says:

    And who deregulated the airlines? Wait for it
    Jimmy Carter!
    For me, that was one of the few things he got right.
    Couldn’t get through much of the drivel in that article.