Air travel in North America and Europe is in gridlock. Flights are an average 30 minutes late. Air traffic control systems broke down last summer and will likely do so again this year. We now have Soviet-style service at capitalist prices. Airlines blame air traffic controllers.
Controllers blame airlines for scheduling departures at the same time.
Unions blame airlines, who blame unions. Everyone rightly dumps on the brain-dead Federal Aviation Agency. Too many passengers is the principal cause of this growing international crisis. In 1999, North American airlines carried 623.9 million passengers. By 2005, they will transport 767.4 million.