The Sindex: Airfares Have Fallen Below Prepandemic Levels
The Reason Sindex tracks the price of vice: smoking, drinking, snacking, traveling, and more.
The Reason Sindex tracks the price of vice: smoking, drinking, snacking, traveling, and more.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D–N.Y.) claims that airlines are engaging in discrimination and enabling price gouging by canceling flights to the Middle East without government permission.
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Congestion and slowdowns in the airspace around New York City account for up to 75 percent of all airline delays, yet efforts to depoliticize its management remain stalled.
Yes, cheap imports hurt some American companies. But protectionist trade policy harms many more Americans than it helps.
The president has tried to shift blame for inflation, interest rate hikes, and an overall decimation of consumers' purchasing power.
The legislation is largely a status quo bill that doesn't take up longstanding calls to reform air traffic control, airport funding, and more.
Boeing throws conventional wisdom out the window, among other things.
The new libertarian president believes in free markets and the rule of law. When people have those things, prosperity happens.
Argentina is opening domestic air travel to foreign airlines for the first time. The same trick has worked wonders for Europe.
The world's largest union of pilots says this requirement is necessary for safety and not unduly burdensome, but its data are misleadingly cherry-picked.
American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and the largest union of pilots want the government to change regulations that allow a smaller competitor to operate.
One company is betting that it can run a commercially viable passenger rail service without massive federal subsidies.
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Phantom thunderstorms scotch thousands of flights, because the FAA sucks.
A case that began with a bang ends with a whimper. The issue of whether the CDC has the power to impose mask mandates remains unresolved.
If a proposal to let pilots do more of their training on flight simulators passes, supporters will have "blood on your hands," says Sen. Tammy Duckworth.
You're 2,200 times more likely to die when traveling by car as opposed to by airplane.
For better air travel in the U.S., it’s time for Congress to open the skies to international competition.
"The greatest thing that ever happened to me was to be born in a free country of modest means and to have opportunities," says the Nobel Prize–winning economist.
Restrictions on baby carriers during takeoff and landing are based on a single study from 1994 that didn’t even study these types of devices.
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
The airline will either clean up its act or go out of business. Meanwhile, the government plods along.
Critics say the NOTAM system creates safety hazards by overloading pilots with hard to read and superfluous information while failing to alert them to real hazards.
Re-regulating the airline industry won’t help prevent massive service disruptions in the future.
Political criticism of Southwest's mass flight cancelations mask a cronyist relationship between government and the passenger airline industry.
The Real ID Act was passed in 2005. 17 years later, it's worth asking if it's finally time to scrap the law.
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Why does Elizabeth Warren think that JetBlue buying Spirit Airlines will be bad for consumers?
Why should we believe that this boondoggle will produce better results than hundreds of other corporate welfare programs?
More airline workers and more flights—not bailouts and restrictions on mergers—is the better policy.
The senator urged the Department of Transportation on Monday to regulate airline consolidation and levy heavy fines for canceled flights.
Sanders' frequent cries for heavy-handed federal government intervention should be opposed whenever they crop up.
Michael Lowe is suing the company in Texas, saying its negligence led to a life-changing ordeal.
That's a fundamentally anti-democratic attitude.
The decision against the rule hinged on whether the agency had the power it asserted.
Though travel isn't completely back to normal, this change is an overdue acknowledgment that we can't always view COVID-19 transmission as catastrophic.
The lawsuit raises some of the same issues as earlier successful challenges against the CDC's eviction moratorium. But, in this case, the federal government has a stronger legal rationale for its policies.
The same agency that brought us security theater continues to enforce a rule that never made sense.
Good intentions, bad results
The unions' support for hygiene theater is of a piece with their support for security theater.
Delta CEO Ed Bastian asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to create a special no-fly list for passengers convicted of creating onboard disruptions.
His judicial philosophy emphasized promotion of democracy, a theme in tension with his emphasis on the need for deference to expertise.
The bumbling TSA and performative mask requirements are ineffective air-travel hassles.
Should the no-fly list include another 70 million Americans?