Elizabeth Bailey helped give airlines freedom to adjust fares
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4 min read . Updated: 01 Sep 2022, 08:42 PM IST - Economist, who has died at age 83, campaigned against smoking on planes and taught at Wharton School
When Elizabeth Bailey was appointed in 1977 as the first woman to serve on the Civil Aeronautics Board, or CAB, she saw her job as freeing the airline industry “from the tentacles of restrictive government regulation."