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☆ Facing Another Boeing Crisis, the F.A.A. Takes a Harder Line
  + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Mark Walker | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
When a Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed off the coast of Indonesia in 2018, killing all 189 people on board, the Federal Aviation Administration allowed other Max planes to keep flying. Less than five months later, in early 2019, another Max 8 crashed in Ethiopia, killing 157 more people. In early January, when a door panel blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet, the F.A.A. Within a day, it had grounded scores of similar Max 9 planes. The regulator also opened an investigation into Boeing’s compliance with safety standards and announced an audit of the Max 9 production line.
Persons: Max, ”, William J, McGee Organizations: Boeing, Max, Federal Aviation Administration, American Economic Liberties, Airbus Locations: Indonesia, Ethiopia
☆ Airlines and F.A.A. Try to Head Off Summer Travel Meltdowns
  + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Niraj Chokshi | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The number of Americans who will fly this summer could eclipse the prepandemic high from 2019. The recovery from the pandemic has been punctuated by several major travel meltdowns, stranding millions of travelers and angering lawmakers and regulators. In recent months, the Transportation Department has proposed requiring greater transparency around airline fees and requiring companies to more fully compensate people whose flights are delayed or canceled. “This pattern they had last year of canceling flights at the last minute, in many cases due to crew shortages, that’s just unacceptable. They’re not going to be able to do that again, I don’t think, not without some serious repercussions.”
☆ Southwest airlines flight delays and cancellations are only the tip of the iceberg
  + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( William J. Mcgee | William J. Mcgee Is The Senior Fellow For Aviation At American Economic Liberties Project | A Nonprofit Fighting Concentrated Economic Power | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
I can tell you without hesitation: Both the airlines and the Transportation Department are at fault. Only Congress and the Transportation Department oversee airlines, and the department and its subsidiary, the FAA, have long struggled with a dual mandate to both promote and regulate airlines. Obviously the airline industry also has become too big to care, despite the $54 billion taxpayer bailout during Covid. Since then, the U.S. airline industry has returned to profitability and, in some cases, notched record revenues. Domestic airlines are mistreating passengers with impunity and are clearly unafraid of backlash from consumers, the media or the Transportation Department.
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