Parece que nem só a TAP e o aeroporto a Portela têm levado má imagem da aviação comercial. Nos Estados Unidos o problema dá azo a dois artigos no The Becker-Posner Blog. Eis a introdução do contributo de Gary Becker (o sumo pode ler-se por lá):
"Why Air Transportation Delays? Becker
The past few years, and especially this summer, has seen loud and frequent complaints against American airlines because of flight delays, cancelled flights, lost baggage, poor on-board service, overbooking, and other problems. Only 68% of airline flights were on time in June, down from 73 % a year ago, and complaints in June rose almost 43% compared with June 2006. Let me try to add to Posner’s fine discussion about why this has been happening. (…)"
