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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Airline Collusion and Price Fluctuations

    This fourth of July weekend, millions of Americans will be flying somewhere, and those holiday plane tickets probably didn’t come cheap. So this week’s announcement that the Department of Justice is investigating the four major airlines for collusion caught our attention.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 2, 2015 • 1 min read

    This fourth of July weekend, millions of Americans will be flying somewhere, and those holiday plane tickets probably didn’t come cheap. So this week’s announcement that the Department of Justice is investigating the four major airlines for collusion caught our attention. Given the turbulent history of the airline industry, consumers may always be in for a bumpy ride when it comes to fares.

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    Airline Fares, Amy Winehouse Doc, and KCRW in Berlin: Surveillance
    1. 0:00Airline Collusion and Price FluctuationsYou’re reading this
    2. 8:48KCRW in Berlin: Surveillance
    3. 24:27Asif Kapadia, Director of the Amy Winehouse Documentary
    4. 41:00Web Roundup: PeaGate and Zero UI
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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    The full episode

    1 of 4
    Airline Fares, Amy Winehouse Doc, and KCRW in Berlin: Surveillance
    1. 0:00Airline Collusion and Price FluctuationsYou’re reading this
    2. 8:48KCRW in Berlin: Surveillance
    3. 24:27Asif Kapadia, Director of the Amy Winehouse Documentary
    4. 41:00Web Roundup: PeaGate and Zero UI
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