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Open skies policy in US will make us better

Argentina has just allowed foreign airline competition... and it has done well for Europe too...

https://reason.com/2023/12/26/argent...d-do-the-same/

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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer (Post 3742647)

Argentina has just allowed foreign airline competition... and it has done well for Europe too...

https://reason.com/2023/12/26/argent...d-do-the-same/

Its worked so well for the US shipping industry.

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Originally Posted by usmc-sgt (Post 3742651)

Its worked so well for the US shipping industry.

They got away with it because the pax oceanliners were long gone, and nobody cares if a cargo ship carrying insured US good sinks outside CONUS.

Different stakes for airline pax, and airliners operating in and over the US. I don't think even the GOP would seriously consider it, other than a couple of rabid anarchists.

The article references Europe, but we kind of already have their system... a TX based airline can operate flights within CA, and vice versa.

As for Argentina, they're not exactly a shining beacon of much of anything. Assuming business-as-usual, I'd tend to assume somebody down there got bought off to facilitate this innovation.