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

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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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