'After a terrible, dreadful 2022 for airline travel, passengers should expect things to get even worse this year.'
The year 2022 was one of the most stress-inducing for consumer air travelers in recent memory. A surge in travel demand after airlines slashed resources during the pandemic caught carriers flat footed. Unable to adequately staff flights, they nevertheless continued to sell record-breaking numbers of tickets, resulting in more than one in five flights being delayed, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics — the highest rate of delays since 2014.
The airlines’ problems are a labor shortage, regulations , outdated technology, and lousy infrastructure. Airlines are too beholden to the government. That’s the problem. They are regulated within an inch of their life. When bureaucracies and politics strangle you, you can’t make the necessary moves fast enough when the market shifts.
Why? Because until recently, the government was focused on what a government should be focused on: the basics of governance.Because the federal government is no longer focused on the basics. Today, it’s focused on utopian nonsense like appeasing theThe reason I consider air travel to be the canary in the coal mine is that in order for air travel to flow smoothly, to work in a way that’s so efficient we take no notice of it, a countless number of moving pieces have to tick in perfect precision.
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