In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo, a United Airlines airplane takes off over a plane on the runway at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco.

What Deregulation Did to Flying

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 20, 2023
Ganesh Sitaraman, law professor and the director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation, member of the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee and the author of Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It (Columbia Global Reports, 2023), argues the deregulation of the airline industry in the 1970s went too far and better public policy can fix the problems with this industry, and others.

 

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