Editor:
Tom Allison, at the time chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee that wrote the Airline Deregulation Act law in 1978, says the ADA resulted in cuts to airline salaries, slashed retirement benefits, forced job cuts despite rises in the frequency of airline services, bankrupted many formerly great airlines or forced them into bankruptcy protection, ruined standards of airline service, raised fares on most non-mainline services, and made life miserable for travelers and…