Not-so-friendly skies: Deregulation didn’t fail, it was never really tried

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Published December 12, 2013 5:00am ET
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Not-so-friendly skies: Deregulation didn’t fail, it was never really tried
Whenever airline companies, such as Delta and Northwest, attempt a merger or acquisition lawyers from the Department of Justice's Antitrust Department jump onto the process, often blocking, delaying and perverting the deal, Delta Airlines CEO Richard Anderson said. | Kiichiro Sato

Part four of a five-part series

Conventional wisdom holds that President Jimmy Carter withdrew the federal government from the airline industry in 1978 through a landmark process that came to be known as “deregulation.”

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