A commonsense way to actually fix air travel 

The nation’s air system is a critical infrastructure for facilitating economic development, supporting the movement of people and goods.  

For air travelers, they have become accustomed to dealing with the endless stream of rules and restrictions that airlines impose on tickets, much of which is contained in their voluminous and mostly incomprehensible Contract of Carriage (which all travelers are subject to, yet few, if any, have read). For example, the United Airlines Contract of Carriage is over 34,000 words ...