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53 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 8 Oct \ parent \ on: Bipartisan Blowback After White House Threat to Furloughed Workers’ Back Pay Politics_And_Law
I do get what you are saying but think about.
If we didn't have the government bailing out airlines with poor management would the bad ones go out of business? We would.
On safety, if an airline or airport has a poor track record they will lose money. The airlines or airports or passengers can vote with their dollars. Under the current system if a person isn't happy with the FFA they have no alternative.
Not pretending it would be perfect, the status quo is far from perfect. I just think maybe we should be a little more critical of the system, not just who is running it right now.
Its funny to me. Everyone believe businesses are driven by greed, but fail to see that when operations are run by people that have very little skin in the game that isn't as big of an issue.
The status quo of torts (correct me if I'm wrong) makes it pretty hard to go after the FFA if they screw up. For one, the government doesn't tend to report honestly on itself. Its not the org I'd start with if I were dismantling the federal gov but it too should go.
I'd start with the dept of Ed FWIW. Easy win.
Economically though this would essentially nuke air travel in the US hampering goods and people moving leading to catastrophic loss.
No one has presented a plan to rival the FAA and the FAA crucially also works in lock step with international partners. The EU, Asia, etc. they aren’t going to let a private company handle that much and that critical of data.
I like the idea but implementation isn’t there at least not yet.
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