There is a crisis in air travel. Americans pay higher prices per domestic flight mile than Europeans, with worse service. Airlines also routinely eliminate service to cities. Three airlines — American, Delta, and United — have cut 74 cities, like Duluth, Minn., and Lincoln, Neb., from service since the COVID-19 pandemic, hollowing out the economic viability of entire regions. It didn’t used to be this way. America invented the airplane and the airline and once had the best air grid in the world …

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