Baggage fees. Cramped seats. Bad food. It’s easy to complain about flying, but it’s also cheaper than ever before. Lou explains why the airline industry is a tough business and why major airlines in places like India and Iceland are shutting down.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING

US Airline Bankruptcies
http://airlines.org/dataset/u-s-bankr...

PwC 2018 airline industry report
https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/...

Airline deregulation act of 1978
https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-co...

IATA’s 2018 year-end report
https://www.iata.org/publications/eco...

Airlines for America 2018 survey
http://survey.airlines.org/


CREDITS
Writer: Louis Foglia
Editor: Page Ellerson
Researcher: Dushyant Naresh
Supervising Producer: Allison Brown

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