Essays on Airline Deregulation

The Certificate of Public Necessity is mandatory for anyone who wants to operate air carriers. The airline should have scheduled transportation activity for property, persons or mail. These air carriers must first prove that they are fit, willing and able to perform the operations while complying with the government rules and regulations. The Department of Transportation (DOT) has to determine whether the applicant is fit to carry out the transportation services. DOT assesses the applicant’s capability in terms of operational and managerial capability in carrying out the transportation activities; availability of financial resources to perform the activity while ...

(Author Name) (Institute) - Briefly summarize the history of Air Traffic Control / NAS. Include an explanation of some key players and events. (1-2 pages) The evolution of Air Traffic Control began with the Post Office scheduling regular flights in 1918. The commercial air industry encouraged and supported the Air Commerce Act of 1926, which lent Federal support to the aviation industry. Subsequent to the act, which charged the Secretary of Commerce with key tasks such as fostering air commerce, issuing and enforcing air traffic rules, licensing pilots, certificating aircraft, establishing airways, and operating and maintaining ...

Airline Deregulation Act of 1978

In the field of aviation and transport, airline regulations had been a cause for debate considering the nature of its policies and restrictions. In the past, airlines were seen as regulated utilities, putting them in harsh conditions that prevents them from practicing flexible competition and providing service that would not hamper their service to their clients. Requests for reform and approval were either rejected or refuted by advisory boards that would stop all reform, believing it would be detrimental to the industry. The United States aviation sector had longed felt this sentiment from the 1930s up to the late 1970s ...

A brief review of leadership and achievements

Abstract Frank Lorenzo has no parallels in the airline industry. Rising from a modest beginning he went to command the largest fleet in the world, outside the Soviet Union. Using unique fund raising abilities and cutting costs, he capitalized on the deregulation opportunities of the 1970s to the fore. However it was the attitude of a union buster, which made him considerably unpopular which even triggered the collapse of his airline empire. The unfortunate end of his career may not match what he achieved, but despite all these Lorenzo remains more of a myth today and an inspiration to future business ...

Introduction.

The Airline Deregulation Act was signed into law on 24th October, 1978. The purpose of this act was to eliminate the control of the government over airline industry. This was after the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was faced out on 31st December, 1984.

Elements of regulation.

Under CAB, the state had powers to control all entries and exits of airlines together with the competitors. All fares and pricing, mergers, agreements and customer issues were controlled by the federal government.

Elements of deregulation.

The Act liberalized standards for pricing, required CAB to speed up processing of different customer requests, and authorized intrastate and interstate joint price ...