Since the year 2000, “short haul [air] traffic” has “Decline[d] in the US” by $34 billion. Eric Morris alerted me to an article that attributes the loss to three factors: airline consolidation; increased pricing; and–ahem–”Increased security requirements and ‘hassle factor’” that “have made alternative surface transportation favorable to flying on short sectors.” The “hassle factor,” a.k.a. the TSA, has “made alternative surface transportation favorable to flying on long sectors,” too, if you ask me and the other former flyers who now boycott commercial aviation. Intriguing, isn’t it, that the airlines would rather forfeit those billions than demand that their bought-and-paid-for congresscriminals … Continue reading That “Hassle Factor”