Brian Lear on WNYC. This hour we're going to do two segments on Thanksgiving stressors. Coming up a little later, a pre- Thanksgiving call in on the fraud holiday question,

what are you anticipating at your Thanksgiving table regarding

the Israel-Hamas war and how do you plan to handle it?

That's coming up in a bit.

Right now, I'm sure some of you listening are either packing suitcases or listening

in a taxi right now on the way to the airport. Surely spending valuable time with family and friends

is worth a hassle, but flying seems to be the ultimate

hassle these days, more than in the past.

Think about it.

What's more miserable than waiting on the never-ending TSA line at JFK or squeezing into that middle seat in between two strangers who won't concede

an armrest, unappetizing airplane food, $10 water bottles, cancel flights, leaving

you stranded in God knows where USA. We could complain about flying for the

length of the entire show if we wanted to. And those are just the, you know,

traditional complaints about flying.

Flying seems to be extra miserable recently.

So we're going to ask, does it have to be this way?

Seems like there's so many issues going on

with each individual airline right now, as well as the system as a whole like a

tangled ball of yarn, where do you start to pick out the knots?

Well according to our next guest, we can get to the root of the mess by addressing

policy mistakes that led us here so joining us now to discuss his latest book

why Flying is miserable and how to fix it is Ganeshita Raman, he's a law professor and the director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for political economy and regulation,

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