American Airline Industry

This research traces and describes the history of the development of the American airline industry. Although commercial aviation encompasses more than just the airline industry, the development of the airline industryparticularly the early development of that industryis largely the development of commercial aviation in the United States. Tracing and describing the history of commercial aviation development in this research is segmented chronologically. The initial discussion considers development prior to 1930, while the second discussion covers the period from 1930 through the beginning of official American participation in the Second World War in December 1941. The third discussion considers commercial aviation development during the war years and a few months beyond the end of the war in August 1945. The fourth discussion traces and described more than three decades of commercial aviation development in the United States from 1946 through 1978. The deregulation of commercial aviation in the United States was enacted into law in 1978, and became effective in 1979. The fifth and final discussion reviews commercial aviation development subsequent to deregulation 1979 through mid1991.

Throughout its history, commercial aviation development in the United States has been to a great extent a product of polices and actions of the fed

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e surviving airline companies, and also strengthened government's regulatory role. There were new military contracts, and the government's need for air transportation support led to the development of governmental subsidies for the industry. These subsidies extended into the postwar period, and the industry's reliance on the subsidies led to an even stronger acceptance of governmental regulation of the industry. The military also invested large sums of money in the development of new airport facilities at both military bases and civilian airports. After the war, many of these facilities were converted to civilian use, an act that stimulated the growth of civil air transport services. In 1946, Congress appropriated $520 million for the construction of new airport facilities to further stimulate air transport.25 Commercial Aviation Development in the United States: 19471978 Following the end of the Second World War, international trade revived on a large scale for the first time since the beginning of the economic recession of the 1930s. Furthermore, Americans, in particular, began to gain discretionary incomes which permitted them to travel. As a result, the international air transport industry began to flourish. The i
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