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Paying to be delayed six hours and have a miserable day . Please note your seat assignment. Air travel these days seems less like an adventure and more like a battle. I mean ive just seen people screaming and like just throwing things. Theres no food. Theres no service or anything. They dont care. Its like youre on your own for many traveling americans, one moment crystalized all that pent up frustration. Oh my god. Look at what you did to him on april 9th of this year oh, my god reporter a planeload of appalled passengers watched as dr. David dao was dragged off a united flight to free up his seat for an airline employee. United apologized but not before some serious customer anger was unleashed. It could have been any one of us. Bill mcgee spent seven years working in the airline industry. Now, hes an aviation advisor to Consumers Union this year he testified before congress about the way airlines treat their customers. Its not being glib and not a cheap shot to say were being treated like boxes. Like cargo. Yes, those of sitting in the back. It wasnt always like that. What were seeing now was put in motion in 1978. That year the airlines became the first u. S. Industry ever to be deregulated by the federal government. It was president carters idea. The rules that governed routes, schedules, and fares were abolished. We were goin to have an open market where competition would rule. And the winners would win, and the losers would lose and consumers would benefit. The fierce competition that prices but it also forced many carriers out of business. Now, in fact, we have fewer airlines and less competition. And theres this level of arrogance that people are not being treated well because the airlines can get away with it. Today four airlines, american, united, delta, and southwest control 80percent of the market. Theyll take your money, but they wouldnt take our questions. All of them passed up the chance to be interviewed for this story. Which is too bad. We wanted to ask them about this. Its called the contract of carriage every airline has one. Your ticket may look like a single piece of paper or a phone screen, but when you buy it youre also signing a document youve probably never seen. Youre agreeing to a contract that could be 80 pages thick, is onesided, completely biased in favor of the airlines. And if you dont like it, dont fly. For example, times shown on tickets, timetables, published schedules or elsewhere are not guaranteed. In other words in other words if your flights delayed, which happens about 20 percent of the time, its not their problem. Theres a dirty little secret in the airline industry, and that is that all passengers are not created equal. If im in seat 24a and youre in seat 24b, right next to me, and now our flight is canceled. Were not equal . No. Were not equal. I may have paid 300 more for my seat and therefore im gonna get on another flight before you are. If you do fly, youve probably felt the sting of all those fees the airlines now charge. If youve ever wondered who inspired them to charge more . Heres your guy you were maybe the mosthated Airline Executive in the country. I think thats true. I may still be. Ben baldanza made his name as ceo of spirit airlines. Starting in 2007, he dramatically reduced ticket prices, while stripping away just about every creature comfort associated with flying. Do i have youbl planes like bags and a better seat and all the other stuff you now charge for that you didnt used to charge for . Spirit was one of the first to sorta start the unbundling process. What he calls unbundling, the rest of us might call nickeland diming. Ben and spirit helped make that a part of flying. If i want a coke on spirit, im payin for that . Yeah. And if you want a coke in the airport, youre gonna pay for it too. And if i wanna use the overhead bin, im gonna pay for that . Well, if you wanna bing bring a big bag that needs an overhead bin whats next . Paid toilets . Well, probably not. Unbundling worked. Despite ranking lowest in consumer satisfaction, spirit soon had the highest profit margin in the airline industry. Major airlines noticed and they started unbundling too. That began when fuel costs were soaring. In recent years fuel costs have dropped but those fees keep going up last year u. S. Carriers took in 2. 9 billion dollars in change fees. And another 4. 2 billion for checking bags. And of course, addon fees are just one way airlines put the squeeze on travelers. Back in the mid1980s, you could find seats coach seats on major us carriers that were as much as 36 inches apart. Since then, as americans were getting larger, the airlines made their coach seats smaller and closer together in an effort to get as many people as possible onto the plane. By the mid 90s, 34 inches was the best you could do. Today, were squeezing into seats that are 31 inches apart. Unless youre flying spirit, in which case youve got 28 inches to maneuver. Assuming you have a seat at all. Last year us airlines bumped more than 40 thousand paying customers against their will. The airlines regulary sell more a strategy they call capacity control. The industry works today because of overbooking . No. Because of capacity control. Okay. But it also is intertwined with a philosophy that we cannot let the plane leave with any extra seats. It also means we fly the airplanes more hours per day, and it also means we sit the plane on the ground less time, which is why theres all the tension to board quickly and that countdown clock. Its all of that. There are now five thousand fewer flights each day than ten years ago. With fewer flights and fewer choices, ticket prices nationwide have actually ticked up. Maybe its no surprise then, that the cost and pressure are ticking people off. And lets face it, as much as we all love to hate the airlines, sometimes the enemy is us. Hes walking down the aisle drinking a beer, without a shirt on. I mean, come on. Kathleen now runs an online forum called passenger shaming. Passengers send her the pics. The guy applying deodorant. The guy sleeping without a shirt. The guy in the leather outfit with a leash and feet feet feet. How much of the behavior that you see and thats documented to you could be done away with if airlines would stop serving alcohol . A lot of it. However if there were never alcohol served, the fare would be higher too, right . Because the Airlines Make money selling alcohol on the plane. Money remains the name of the game. Even as chaos in the air unfolded this spring, Airlines Stocks went up. We cant make the airlines nicer, but we can make them more fair. Massachusetts senator ed markey believes that after 40 years. The airlines could use some reregulation. Every couple of years, it gets on the news. Airlines get called on the carpet here in washington and the airlines say, we promise. Well clean up our act. And then nothing ever changes. Is anything ever gonna change . Well, in the f. A. A. Reauthorization bill, which is now moving through the senate, we have language which weve included which will give the consumer protections. Senator markey, a democrat along with senator roger wicker, a republican have added an amendment to the bill requiring that the govenment set reasonable fees for checked baggage, itinerary changes and seat selection. The airlines contribute a lotta money, they got a lotta lobbyists and theyve done a pretty good job of heading off anything legislatively. That would actually prescribe their behavior. The airline lobbyists have done a great job in ensuring that consumers have no protections. But weve reached a boiling point. And were now about to engage in a mighty political battle. But until then, heres the story of air travel in 2017. Money talks. All others fly coach. In the middle seat. In the air, the smell of frustration and cheap scotch. If you do feel squeezed by the system, dont take out your anger on another person. Thats the spirit. The government is paying attention to some consumer complaints about the airlines. This week, the feds fined three carriers for Violations Including failing to help passengers with disabilities and failing to make timely refunds. Coming up baby powder. Right. Had you ever used it . Every day since i was 16 years old. Does the talc in baby powder increase the risk of Ovarian Cancer . Baby powder is absolutely safe. As it affects how well brilinta works. Brilinta helps keep platelets from sticking together and forming a clot. In a Clinical Study brilinta worked better than plavix®. Brilinta reduced the chance of another heart attack. Or dying from one. 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I thought i was gonna die. So my husband and i, we began to think about casket versus cremation. Berg is one of the more than 20,000 women in the u. S. Who are diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer each year. In her doctors waiting room, she was looking through stacks of information. And then i found this Gildna Radner booklet. Gildna radner the actress who died of cancer. Right. Who died of Ovarian Cancer. And what did it say . They had a bunch of Different Things about what causes Ovarian Cancer. And down in the bottom on this one page, use of talc in the genital area. Baby powder. Right. Had you ever used it . Yes. How often . Every day since i was 16 years old. Dakota logged onto an Ovarian Cancer website and started asking questions. And who responds . Allen smith, the lawyer. Allen smith is a lawyer from jackson, mississippi. He told berg hed been researching the issue for years and in 2009 they became the first to file a talc lawsuit against Johnson Johnson and its talc supplier. Youre a solo lawyer taking on one of the Biggest Companies in the world. Theyre a multibillion dollar corporation. Well dont remind me of that now but now that im here, it is very important to me that women be informed to make a decision about their health and safety. Smith claims studies going back decades show that women who use talc the main ingredient in johnsons baby powder have an increased risk of getting Ovarian Cancer and Johnson Johnson fails to warn women about it. Baby powder is absolutely safe. But Johnson Johnson has fought back defending its iconic product. Bart williams is a lawyer representing the company. The notion that Johnson Johnson would sell that product knowing that it causes cancer in women is just outrageous. After filing the lawsuit, smith asked for all of the companys paperwork related to the issue. Its over 200,000 documents. When i saw the internal documents and the way that that Johnson Johnson talked about knowing the risk, i knew at that point that this was a really, really big deal. Smith used some of those documents to help make his argument to the jury in deane bergs case. Among them a 1997 memo from Johnson Johnsons own consultant who acknowledged that many studies did show an association between talc use and Ovarian Cancer. The consultant said the talc industry risked being percieved like the cigarette industry for quote denying the obvious. And smith latched on to this. In 2006, the World Health Organization listed talcbased body powder as possibly carcinogenic, and as a result, Johnson Johnsons talc supplier began to include that fact in the information it sends with every shipment. When they send that talc by rail car in bags to Johnson Johnson it has a sheet on top of it. It lists the risks that genital talc use could possibly cause Ovarian Cancer. Johnson johnson has never passed that warning on to the public. The jury in deane bergs case found the company negligent for not including a warning label on the bottle, but awarded berg no money. Even though we didnt get money damages, the fact that 12 jurors in south dakota looked at the evidence and said, Johnson Johnson shoulda warned the public about talc was big. That verdict in 2013 paved the way for other lawsuits more than 6,000 have been filed and allen smith is connected to nearly all of them in the past 18 months, five cases have gone to trial. Smith and his growing legal team have won four, with juries awarding a total of more than 300 Million DollarsJohnson Johnson is appealing. And the co victories. Smith and his team. Johnson johnson has lost yet another multimillion dollar lawsuit. Johnson johnson is appealing. And the company has had its own victories. It has won one trial, and a new jersey court also sided with the company, throwing out another case. Johnson johnson attorney Bart Williams says the most credible science proves baby powder is safe. It is plaintiffs lawyers taking bits and pieces of science and tryin to get people alarmed when in fact, what should be happening is that people should be relying upon and having faith in the scientific organizations that look at these types of things. Williams says the plaintiffs cherry pick the science and information from the internal documents, taking statements out of context. For example, that memo where the consultant said they risked being perceived like the cigarette industry . The consultant went on to say this would be a tragic misperception because the industry has powerful valid arguments to support its position and that sheet mentioning the World Health Organization decision that Johnson Johnson gets with every shipment of talc . Williams says context matters. In 2006 the World Health Organization, as you well know said that talc is a possibly cancer causing agent. Why would an International Group say that if its not true . If you wanna look at the the products that are on their list as probable cancer causers, that includes things like red meat, eating potato chips eating french fries, working the night shift, drinking really hot beverages. Those things i just mentioned correlate higher than talc with cancer. Theres no warning for any of those products. That just because some studies show a correlation between baby powder and Ovarian Cancer that doesnt prove talc causes cancer. An overwhelming majority of studies over the past 35 years have found an increase in chance of getting Ovarian Cancer after using baby powder 30 increase on average. Why doesnt that concern you . The center for disease control, the food and drug administration, the National Cancer institute, the department of health and Human Services, osha, have looked at every single one of the studies that you just referred to they and then some. And theyve concluded, that you cannot draw a causal connection between talc and Ovarian Cancer. Allen, im just thinking co