Jimmy Carter's airline deregulation

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This is something I occasionally hear as an attack from True Leftists trying to argue the Democratic Party is such a corporate sellout, blah blah blah.

However I have to say on balance it was a Freedom Act. Prior to it the airline industry was ran by a cabal of a few who made it almost impossible to get a federal license and keep out competition, and prices were hugely inflated. Adjusted for inflation a plane ticket for a NYC-LA round trip cost over $1000 prior to it. Seems like the sort of thing that was just simply necessary.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yeah even if you have to pay extra for special services you're still paying less than you were before.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I actually flew Spirit this weekend. No carry on bag though so I really did pay the advertised low fare.

I was just reading up on Spirit Airlines.  Holy cow!  I thought I had it bad when I've been on American Airlines.  And, the rest are bad too.  The only decent domestic flight I've taken was on Virgin America anyway.

Simfan, do you know this song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMRUszqMVM8

"Real union flight attendant, my oh my, you ain't nothing but a waitress in the sky."

You do know that song is satirical? Westerberg has said the meaning is that his sister was a flight attendant and the song is written from the perspective of one of the assholes heaping abuse on her that he heard about so frequently.