MowerMan5
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join:2001-04-07
Fort Worth, TX | Airline prices down?
Does anyone have any data on relative airline prices from before deregulation and after? I wan't doing much airline ticket shopping before 1978...
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|  According to a chart of the Big Five @ Consumer Reports before & after deregulation, airline prices are down 56% ($23 avg per revenue-passenger-miles traveled in 1978 to about $13 in 2000), whereas cable prices are up 46% ($12 avg monthly revenue per subscriber in 1983 to $26 in 2000.
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MowerMan5
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Fort Worth, TX | okay then... wasn't the major point of deregulation lower prices for consumers? it would seem that in that regard, deregulation worked.
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| said by MowerMan:
okay then... wasn't the major point of deregulation lower prices for consumers? it would seem that in that regard, deregulation worked.
Just because there is a correlation doesn't mean there is a causality link. Maybe deregulation had something to do with it and maybe not. Then maybe its effect was just one of many factors that influenced the price. But to be fair its pretty much a given that at least in the case of the air travel industry, deregulation did have a significant role in lowering the cost of air fare. You know what they say about timing being everything.
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