[taion]

I'm not sure why this piece mentions deregulation. The drinks limit was in 1956, while the sandwich spat was in 1958 – but deregulation wasn't until 1978, two decades later!

The collusion in question seems to only relate to regulation, which prohibited the airlines from competing on price. The incentives obviously don't work out the same with deregulation!

[masto]

It was kind of a weirdly written intro, but I think it was meant to set up "here are some examples of how ridiculous things were before deregulation".

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

It mentions deregulation because it is challenging a purported assumption that the only airline regulations before 1978 were those set by government.

Arguably it was the government regulation against competing on price that led to the industry regulations on food service. Airlines tried to compete on other bases so food service was much better than what it is today.