Timeline for Why doesn't the US have a flag carrier airline?
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| Mar 7, 2019 at 12:02 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Simon Nope. The BA non-Union-Jack tail liveries were introduced in 1997. Margaret Thatcher famously didn't like them but she'd not been Prime Minister or even a Member of Parliament for seven years by then. | |
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| Mar 2, 2019 at 0:09 | answer | added | StephenS | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 14:56 | answer | added | CrossRoads | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Mar 1, 2019 at 2:34 | answer | added | Memjim | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 20:53 | comment | added | Simon | @Jimmy Only by it's own advertising. The very definition of flag carrier is that it enjoys preferential rights or subsidies. BA is by no measure, a flag carrier. Maggie Thatcher finally cut the last remaining route preferences when they took the Union Flag off the tails. | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 20:30 | comment | added | Jimmy | @simon While British Airways might not be "government owned or official", it is still considered to be the "Flag Carrier" for GB. | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 18:00 | vote | accept | Di437 | ||
| Apr 14, 2017 at 6:05 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/852764624722067457 | ||
| Apr 13, 2017 at 23:37 | comment | added | Chloe | Because that's socialist nonsense! We don't nationalize businesses here. We had airline price regulation, and prices were much more (in 1970 money!), until deregulation in 1978 reduced prices and increased competition. BTW FedEx is not a government business either. (But the USPS is, and when Lysander Spooner tried to compete with them with the American Letter Carrier Company, he was swiftly outgunned and beaten down, so not everything is fair.) | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 22:27 | comment | added | Michael | It does, it's called Air United States of America Airways... what, you've never heard of them? Well they are very small, they don't even have their own football team. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 20:46 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | This is along the same lines of why the U.S. does not have a national car manufacturer, or a national utility. The Airline Deregulation Act (1978) pretty much guaranteed competition, which is difficult to do with a nationally subsidized carrier. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 18:46 | answer | added | Jimmy | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 18:06 | comment | added | TomMcW | AFAIK Pan Am and TWA were considered flag carriers until deregulation. They weren't government owned, but they were assigned the international routes that were negotiated by treaty with other countries. Deregulation ended regulatory control over routing and pricing, so the concept of flag carrier in the US disappeared | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 17:41 | comment | added | jamesqf | Because the US believes in free enterprise (at least in theory - there's always Amtrak :-(), so the government shouldn't be operating businesses. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 17:21 | comment | added | Simon | British Airways is not a govt approved/official airline. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 16:59 | comment | added | Di437 | Oh, sorry, I'm asking why the US does not have govt approved/official airline, like the British Airways or Air India | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 16:58 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | Are you asking why the United States doesn't have a government (approved/sanctioned/official) airline? Or are you asking if the US has a "flag" (US registered) airline? Usually the US government at least tries to stay out of commercial enterprises... | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 16:49 | history | asked | Di437 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |