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...nearly complete, deregulation has turned air travel into a free-for-all or less than it now costs to fly to San Francisco, we'll fly you there and back. And there again." So boasted the ads of People Express last week, in the Newark (N.J.)-based airline's latest low-fare offering. Once unthinkable, such price slashing has become almost commonplace in the six years since Congress began deregulating air travel. That historic step has made U.S. skies the most competitive in the world and turned the once orderly American airline industry into a survival...
...Congress passed the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, the number of interstate airlines has increased from 36 to 125. They range from no-frills discounters like People Express, the fastest-growing company in aviation history, to tiny Regent Air, which plies its passengers on flights from Los Angeles to Newark with caviar, lobster and French champagne. Not all of them have been profitable. Old and new carriers, including Braniff and Air Florida, went bankrupt by expanding routes too fast. Said Daryl Wyckoff, a professor of transportation at Harvard Business School: "The airlines were always ending up like my beagle...
Some travelers have discovered ingenious (if timeconsuming) ways of profiting from lower fares. Rice University Historian Francis Loewenheim, who shuttles between Houston and his native Cincinnati, has found that he can save more than 50% by going via Newark, some 1,000 miles out of his way. People Express's Houston-Newark-Columbus fare runs from $85 to $109, compared with $265 for a one-way, undiscounted coach ticket from Houston to Cincinnati on Delta. It does not matter to Loewenheim that he has to finish his trip with a two-hour bus ride (cost: $18) from Columbus...
...delays stacked up last month, the FAA issued a stern warning to the airlines: either voluntarily reschedule flights at the six most congested airports (Atlanta's Hartsfield, the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark, Chicago-O'Hare and Denver's Stapleton) or the FAA would do it for them. A special immunity from antitrust prosecution was granted so that the air carriers could meet. Representatives from about 50 domestic and 15 international carriers last week began a six-day session in Crystal City, Va., outside Washington, to work out new flight schedules...
Early on, the talks ran into turbulent weather. A Government proposal to increase the number of flights at Kennedy and La Guardia while reducing traffic at nearby Newark ran into objections from People Express. The cut-rate carrier, which uses Newark for its popular shuttle service to Washington and Boston, angrily protested that any cutback would restrain competition for the benefit of a larger airline. The carrier it meant was Eastern, which runs a rival shuttle operation from La Guardia...