It is a special pleasure for me today to sign into law the Airline Deregulation Act. This legislation will permit us to achieve two critical objectives. One is to help our fight against inflation. And the other one is to ensure American citizens of an opportunity for low-priced air transportation.
It will also mean less Government interference in regulation of an increasingly prosperous airline industry.
Better bring a book on flights. US Airways says it will start removing in-flight entertainment systems on domestic flights in November to save about $10 million annually in fuel and other costs.
Spokesman Phil Gee says the movie systems weigh about 500 pounds each, forcing planes to use more fuel to get around the country.
Jet fuel costs have skyrocketed in recent years, slashing profits and leading to thousands of layoffs and flight cuts throughout the industry.
– “US Airways will stop movies on domestic flights,” Associated Press, July 10. 2008.
That worked out great, huh? At this rate, we’ll all be flying outside the cabin like Barney did on that old Flintstones episode.
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