Don't fly to Chico from San Francisco. Going to New York is cheaper. It wasn't
before dereg. So it was not beneficial to all consumers.
Brad De Long wrote:
Don't any of you fly anywhere on vacation?
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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Don't fly to Chico from San Francisco. Going to New York is
cheaper. It wasn't
before dereg. So it was not beneficial to all consumers.
But there are a lot more of us who want to fly from San Francisco to
New York. Bentham would approve...
Brad DeLong
Hi again, Brad,
Seems to me that air safety is one place where the market gives
airline executives and airplane manufacturing and maintenance
executives exactly the right incentives: people aren't going to fly
airplanes or airlines that crash regularly...
They only have to make sure they don't
Hi again, Brad,
Seems to me that air safety is one place where the market gives
airline executives and airplane manufacturing and maintenance
executives exactly the right incentives: people aren't going to fly
airplanes or airlines that crash regularly...
They only have to make sure they don't
What has been the effect of deregulation on service to smaller centers? Is travel
to low traffic
areas much more expensive, or non-existent. When we had more regulation in Canada
permission to serve lucrative routes was contingent upon service on other routes or
centers that were not as
See Robert Kuttner's EVERYTHING FOR SALE for an interesting long-view inspection
of the rate of price declines in the airline industry. His data shows dramatic
decrease in the rate of price drop before the onset of deregulation in the 1980s
airline industry. He essentially argues that pre
The airlines MUST discriminate -- i. e. must screw business flyers. That's the
only reason for "A Saturday Night Stay is required." If the airlines couldn't
enforce that profits would drop sharply, followed by a shrinkage of capacity, and
then a cut-back of the discounted tickets.
The
Yes, Brad, the airline execs don't want to have an accident, and they hope they
won't if they cut corners, but they are sure profits will benefit if they do
cut corners.
gene Coyle
Brad De Long wrote:
G'day Brad,
And we have gone from having one serious commercial aviation accident
per
I have a simple question about safety. There have been quite a few accidents
among the commuter lines, which replaced the majors, which used to serve
places, such as Chico. Has the safety record really improved that much when
the commuters are factored in? I don't know.
Brad De Long wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Don't fly to Chico from San Francisco. Going to New York is
cheaper. It wasn't
before dereg. So it was not beneficial to all consumers.
The airfare index of the CPI has risen at roughly twice the rate of
the overall CPI since dereg - almost 11% in the last year, vs.
Yes, and de-regulated airfare has gone up much faster than electric
power in the CPI.\
Gene
Doug Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Don't fly to Chico from San Francisco. Going to New York is
cheaper. It wasn't
before dereg. So it was not beneficial to all consumers.
The airfare
Jim Devine wrote:
I read some stats in LBO awhile back that indicated that price-deregulation
didn't really lead to lower airline ticket prices. Doug?
Yup, this is a long-standing LBO obsession. See other post. The dereg
partisans like to quote real fares per seat-mile, which are down
since
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