All Posts Tagged With: "FAA"
The Futility of the Government Airline Bailout
In recent years many airlines have struggled, and following
9/11 Congress passed a massive aid package aimed at rescuing the industry. After years of government aid it is appropriate to ask what has been accomplished.
The Pentagon Ramps Up the War on Privacy
David Brown is a freelance writer and editor. This is the first of two parts. [Editor's Note: As we went to press the U.S. Congress had hampered the Defense Department's ability to carry out the threat to privacy discussed in the following article. Under the provision adopted the Pentagon cannot proceed until it assesses for [...]
1Apr2003 | David M. Brown | 0 comments | ContinuedPrivatizing Airline Safety and Security
The events of 9/11 underscore the importance of improving the safety and security of air travel. The government’s response to the terrorist attacks employs a command-and-control approach. That approach ought to be questioned. After all, it was the Federal Aviation Administration’s system that failed on 9/11. Why should we expect additional controls to be more [...]
1Nov2002 | and Paul A. Cleveland | 3 comments | ContinuedThis Is America?
I have long had an uneasy relationship with airport security. Before September 11, I resisted the demand that I produce a government-issued ID, believing that it smacked too much of the “Papers, please” of the former Soviet Union that Hollywood movies used to mock and we free Americans used to laugh at. I also used [...]
1Jul2002 | James R. Otteson | 12 comments | ContinuedThe Right to Be Left Alone
“The makers of the Constitution conferred the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by all civilized men—the right to be let alone.” -Justice Louis D. Brandeis According to Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, one of the “repeated injuries and usurpations” committed against the American people by the King of England [...]
1May2002 | Mark Skousen | 1 comment | ContinuedA Mad Scramble at 30,000 Feet
Edward Lopez is an assistant professor of economics at the University of North Texas (elopez@econ.unt.edu, www.econ.unt.edu/elopez). Airlines have been taking it on the chin lately. Travelers are busier, delays are likelier and longer, airports are bursting at the seams, and FAA complaints have doubled. Last summer Andy Rooney stood up for all travelers on his [...]
1Feb2000 | Edward J. López | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Government Spiral
Eric Nolte is an airline pilot, a writer, and a classically trained pianist and composer of contemporary concert music. The graveyard spiral is a maneuver known to students of airplane accidents as one of the most common reasons that inexperienced pilots unwittingly kill themselves. In this utterly preventable maneuver, a pilot untrained to fly on [...]
1Feb1999 | Eric Nolte | 0 comments | Continued-
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