Commentary
Like a DC-10 chasing its own tail, the deregulation of air travel is never able to progress nearly as far as it should, despite staggering successes, because politicians who want to control passengers’ lives are so good at blaming the airlines for the government’s failures.
At the beginning of the year, the Biden administration waged a war of words against Southwest Airlines after obsolete technology for tracking and scheduling flight crews led to the carrier canceling thousands of departures in the face of bad weather. Southwest “failed its customers, point blank,” Biden’s media mouthpiece claimed, and promised that “the Department of Transportation will hold them accountable to their commitments to make their customers whole.”…