TV Preview: ‘Flying Cheap’: Buckle Up, Indeed – NewsFlash – NJ.com

That cheap ticket you found online is the byproduct of deregulation in the extreme, which allows major carriers to transfer to smaller carriers the high-cost (and all liabilities) of what once might have been a costlier, premium flight. According to “Frontline,” half of all domestic flights are now handled by smaller carriers, no matter what the brand-name logo on the plane’s tail might suggest. And, as it happens, the last six fatal crashes in the United States involved commuter flights.

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