ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the geography of deregulation by focusing on the case of the US domestic airline industry, which, in 1978, became one of the first to be significantly deregulated. It shows that the geographic effects of the deregulation of the airline industry are conspicm ous, are consistent with other deregulated industries, and conform to a core-periphery pattern. The core-periphery model has been used extensively in geography, economics, and political science principally as a way to understand spatial variations in levels of development over regions at intranational and international scales. Most communities regard increases in flight departures, quality of service, and passenger flow as beneficial for economic vitality. Cities benefiting most from deregulation are typified by the presence of domestic and/or international operations of several carriers, none being able to dominate passenger traffic.
