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by QuestionGirl • 10:32 am
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Man is that gonna cause a mess. I don’t think I want to fly anytime soon, seeing that the FAA, under Bush’s watch, has decided the industry will……regulate itself? More incompetence and truly stupid actions, or inactions. As someone somewhere wrote….we have to jump through security hoops, be inspected down to our shoes to get on the planes…but the planes themselves aren’t inspection. Another cozy relationship between government and big business. What a sham. Another example of how we’re being kept safe in the homeland. This is going to put a financial hurt on American airlines. Guess in the long run it doesn’t pay to cozy up to the FAA, eh boys?
From the Star-Telegram:
“I have never in my life seen regulation more out of control than it is right now,” said Darryl Jenkins, a longtime industry analyst and consultant. “The price to the industry and to the traveling public is going to be enormous.”
U.S. Rep. James Oberstar, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, criticized the FAA for being too close to the airlines it regulates in recent years.
“FAA needs to rethink its relationship with the airlines and the other aviation entities which it regulates,” he said during last week’s hearing. “FAA needs to clean house, from the top down, and take corrective action.”
He added that “I believe it is no mere coincidence that this audit began just after news of our investigation became public, and just prior to us holding this hearing.”
