United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Failure

Re:United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Fa... by yladiz on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:08PM (#14100176)

There are a lot of regulations for airlines like American, but considering, for example, that there's nothing you can do at 35,000 feet in a giant metal machine if there's a mechanical failure, I'm much happier that there are a lot of regulations than not enough, in this case. There are a lot of things that suck about air travel in the states, but the FAA isn't one of them.

As far as the companies being bad investments, it's most likely due to their extremely low margins and ROI.

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Re:United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Fa... by ryanmarsh on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:01PM (#14101196)

Safety and Regulation are two partially overlapping sets.

The FAA regulates an immense amount of things that are trivial and those regulations are very hard to update. The FAA issues the vast majority of regulations[0].

[0]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/search?conditions%...

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