At a time when budgets are tight all across the nation, a federal program is spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on empty airline seats. The Essential Air Service program helps subsidize small airports. Congress created the program in 1978 out of fear the larger airlines would abandon smaller airports during deregulation. The program was supposed to last just a few years, but 34 years later, it's still being paid for by taxpayers.
Deregulation Government regulation is a bane of a healthy business environment. Competition is stifled and processes get bogged down in bureaucracycy. While the reasons for regulation may be noble, the taxes and company responses to well intended regulations make for more of a burden than they are worth. A prime example is the success of the deregulation of airlines
Consumers who purchased airline tickets and didn't use them do not have an implied private right of action under regulations implementing the Airline Deregulation Act, the 1st Circuit has ruled. A group of consumers filed suit against various airlines when they purchased nonrefundable airline tickets and failed to use them.
When economic stagnation gripped the country in the 1970s, I was an economics professor in my home state of Texas. Back then when I was teaching a class and needed a real-world example of how government overregulation harmed the economy and stifled innovation, I would point to any number of sectors in the economy. This was the era when making a long-distance call was a big deal. In the wake of the economic malaise of the 1970s, economists began to seriously look at deregulation as a way to enhance economic growth. Airlines, trucking, energy and telecommunications all were opened to market competition, unleashing a new era of economic growth, innovation and investment.
...'s claim was preempted by the Airline Deregulation Act ("ADA"), 49U.S.C. § 41713(b)(1), and dismisse...Congress did not intend to convert airlines into quasi-government agencies, complete with sove...
Another airline is discovering that flights in and out of Santa Fe aren't especially good business: Great Lakes Aviation has given three months' notice that it might stop flying here -- unless it can find a subsidy. Such things still exist at the federal level a quarter of a century since the Airline Deregulation Act prompted the airlines to take off and land where the biggest crowds are, leaving many a small city in the lurch.
When Dave Keselica emerged from the nine-seat Cape Air prop plane at the Augusta State Airport earlier this month, the Nevada resident was eager to get to his new second home in Maine. It cost federal taxpayers $129 for the Reno-based mining executive to fly from Boston. But Keselica said that if he hadn't been able to fly commercially to Augusta, he might not have bought a home near there.
... this year of more than $188 million to airlines operating at 153 airports in 35 states and Puerto ... was launched in the wake of the 1978 deregulation of airlines. It pays airlines a subsidy to provide...
In his letter arguing that airline deregulation failed because the government saved some air carriers from failing, letter-writer Steve Conway exhibits an odd view of the free-market system ("Failed deregulation," Oct. 24 and PghTrib.com). First, United Airlines filed bankruptcy only once, not the multiple times alleged by Mr. Conway.
... of globalization, such as the deregulation of airlines and the remittance system, while advan...
... continued into 2002 and 2003, as major airlines, faced with reduced sales, continued to reduce the... set up after passage of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. This system created central hubs acro...
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