While the FAA administrator Michael Huerta sports a cheshire grin saying there is nothing that can be done about the burgeoning flight delays that is threatening the industry and causing millions in daily losses for airlines and travelers, one thing becomes clear: playing nasty politics with the traveling public and congress could backfire badly. The truth is that the FAA is an antiquated relic with practices that are highly inefficient and processes that are in bad need of updating. This is a perfect example of bloated government agency that is rife with cronyism.
From Wikipedia: The FAA has been cited as an example of regulatory capture, "in which the airline industry openly dictates to its regulators its governing rules, arranging for not only beneficial regulation but placing key people to head these regulators."[
The FAA has requested and received annual budget increases, while the number of flights in the U.S. has actually decreased over the past few years. Their discretionary travel expenditures, runaway hiring of countless consultants goes without being checked. The FAA has chosen to play with fire by furloughing essential personnel that are deemed too important to flight safety and are negligently contributing to obstruction of interstate commerce while causing financial and economic harm to the airline industry and the traveling public.
It is time for congress to put the FAA under scrutiny, to demand efficiency and better practices in serving the taxpayers and the travelers.
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