A ticket prints two local times — the departure airport's clock and the arrival airport's clock — and nothing else. That single convention is why a transpacific flight can land on a different calendar day than the one it left,…

The mainstream case for the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act rests on real, verifiable numbers. Real domestic airfares fell by an estimated 25 percent between 1977 and 1983. U.S. airlines enplaned 275 million passengers in 1978, rising to 360 million by…

The Civil Aeronautics Board didn't vanish when deregulation passed. It took six more years to fully phase itself out, authority by authority. Domestic route power ended first, then fare-setting, and Congress supplied the final cleanup before the agency closed at…

Seven gateways on this list no longer exist as commercial airports: Kai Tak, Ellinikon International Airport, Jeddah International Airport, Munich-Riem Airport, Stapleton International Airport, Berlin Tempelhof, and Meigs Field. Safety, capacity, geopolitics, or a political order forced each one shut.…

The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 ended the Civil Aeronautics Board's control over fares, routes, and new market entrants. It never touched the FAA's safety authority — Congress wrote that boundary directly into the statute. Section 107 of the Act…