Airline Deregulation Overseer Dies At 78

Dan McKinnon, who helped oversee the deregulation of the U.S. airline industry as the last chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in the early 1980s, died in late November at the age of 78. “The airline industry right now, the way that it is, is a direct reflection of how he deregulated it,” Rep...

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