Sanders on United Incident: We Need to Take a ‘Hard Look’ at the Airlines

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SANDERS: “Well, I think anybody who flies a lot, and as the United States senator, I fly a lot, knows how dysfunctional in many respects the airlines are. They know that there are many, many delays that are caused not because of weather but because of inappropriate practices on the part of the airlines. This overbooking, which caused this particular problem, is not unique. I’ve been on airlines many, many times where people have been asked to leave, and I think what we do need is to take a hard look at the airlines in this country and make them much more responsive to the consumers than they currently are, in terms of pricing. You could have two people on an airline, one spending twice as much as another person. So, the idea of taking a hard look at airline travel and, by the way, the consolidation of ownership in the airline industry is something that I think would be a very useful effort.”