Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

DEREGULATION HAS SPAWNED ABUSES IN AIR TRANSPORT

1988; Aviation Week Network; Volume: 129; Issue: 21 Linguagem: Inglês

0005-2175

P. Dempsey,

International Law and Aviation

This article reviews some of the abuses which have been brought about in air transport by deregulation, including the following: the industry has become an oligopoly and, in many markets, a monopoly; the industry has suffered the worst economic losses in its history; pricing is highly discriminatory; small communities pay more for poorer service; labor relations have deteriorated; airline service has gone straight to hell; and the margin of safety has narrowed. The author concludes that the next Congress and President Elect Bush need to come to grips with the fact that airline deregulation is, in many respects, a failure. He believes that the time has come to reform the industry and reestablish governmental protection of the public. He is not calling for a return to the tight-fisted regulatory regime of the early 1970s, but for more regulation of things like antitrust, safety, consumer protection, monopoly abuse, discriminatory and predatory pricing, and computer reservations systems.