[InTheArena]

Your response is absolutely politics. You don't debate any of the factual information presented - but simply cast doubt due to a difference of politics and ideology.

Your assertion by pointing to a article from The Nation (the oldest progressive journal in the US, as they proudly quote) just emphasis your partisan take.

Regardless, In this case - the article is correct, as facts are simply facts, and not partisan. Adjusted for inflation, travel costs roughly half of what it did at the time of deregulation. Since hearing facts from people you disagree seems to offend, I would suggest a separate source on the path of deregulation, the instability it brought, but then the ultimate success - check out Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger.

[torstenvl]

A newspaper, even one with a bias (as they all have), is still a more objective source than an avowedly conservative-libertarian think tank that fires people for having a different view on an issue.

[InTheArena]

Source A) I looked up the real cost decline of airfare over two decades, correlated it to infatuation, tracked the entire industry through multiple bankruptcies and re-capitalization stages. The numbers show that airfare has decreased by half over the last two years.

Source B) Airfare is now more expensive then it ever has been!

Both of these statements were literally published. The first was published by AEI. The second by the Denver Post. One was objectively true. It was not the Denver Post.

There is a reason anyone who follows aviation rolls their eyes before reading any newspaper ever on the airline business.