United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Failure

Re:United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Fa... by jameskilton on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:36PM (#14100484)

Flying is the safest form of transport because of the FAA. Yes there are a ton of rules and regulations, but the vast majority exist for a very good reason and the FAA is very good at cracking down on offenders. Why? Because the consequence of failure is so high that we can't afford not to.

Get rid of the FAA and it's only a matter of time before what was illegal ends up taking down a full airliner, killing hundreds or even thousands of people and ruins flying for everyone.

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Re:United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Fa... by ryanmarsh on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:03PM (#14101216)

> but the vast majority exist for a very good reason

I don't know how you can back that up. Who has done an analysis on the percent of them that have made a material impact on safety.

> Get rid of the FAA

I didn't say that. I just said they're in the way of innovation and customer satisfaction. Maybe we don't have to be extreme. Maybe we could just modernize them?

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