Oh, I love the title of your article about air travel (“The Misery of Flying,” January 8, 2011). Misery is the word, too. Having flown regularly from the 1950s till the early 2000s, I can testify that deregulation is largely to blame. As you point out, it resulted in a massive shift of passengers from land to air travel even over short distances. Many other things intervened over the years, not to mention terrorism, volcanoes, or unusual snowstorms, but perpetual crowding, often resulting in delays even under the best of conditions, could well be eased by better air-travel regulation. And regulation should follow capacity limitations of the underlying infrastructure, especially airports, which are supposedly regulated already. In fact, they are hardly regulated at all. If better regulation does not come soon enough, there will be many more people like me, who will decide on their own never to fly again. This is what I did in 2003, when I took my last flight, and was lucky enough to have my decision reinforced by the strike of the crew at the airline I was flying with. The misery of flying, farewell.