--- title: Five Best: Here’s a Plan to Fix Airline Travel description: Here’s a plan to fix airline travel, should Congress prevent future presidents from firing the FBI director and more. canonical: https://time.com/4864201/heres-a-plan-to-fix-airline-travel/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-19T16:00:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:39.997Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Here’s a Plan to Fix Airline Travel og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4864201/heres-a-plan-to-fix-airline-travel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here’s a Plan to Fix Airline Travel twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here’s a Plan to Fix Airline Travel by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 19, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 19, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s a plan to fix airline travel.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-18/my-two-part-plan-to-fix-air-travel-hell) By Joe Nocera in _Bloomberg View_ **2\.** [**Should Congress prevent future presidents from firing the FBI director?**](https://www.lawfareblog.com/congress-should-reconsider-giving-fbi-director-independence-presidential-control) By Andrew Kent in _Lawfare_ **3\.** [**China wants a lot from its African ‘partners.’ This is how they can protect themselves.**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-investment-africa-power-dynamic-by-hannah-ryder-1-2017-07) By Hannah Ryder at _Project Syndicate_ **4\.** [**Before you can be with others, first learn to be alone.**](https://aeon.co/ideas/before-you-can-be-with-others-first-learn-to-be-alone) By Jennifer Stitt in _Aeon_ **5\.** [**Populism isn’t black and white.**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEHohdXy5XQ) By Michael McFaul at the A_spen Ideas Festival_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Here’s a Plan to Fix Airline Travel ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4864201/heres-a-plan-to-fix-airline-travel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4864201/heres-a-plan-to-fix-airline-travel/"},"headline":"Here’s a Plan to Fix Airline Travel","datePublished":"2017-07-19T16:00:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:39.997Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4864201/heres-a-plan-to-fix-airline-travel/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Economy","Airlines","Innovation","FBI","populism"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4864201/heres-a-plan-to-fix-airline-travel/","name":"Here’s a Plan to Fix Airline Travel"}}]}] ```