Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
I’m not in job of defending the US system, but there needs to be some perspective. The US airspace operates about 40%-50% of all global aviation. Only half of daily flights are air carrier. For lot of reasons outside this discussion, air carriers are the default transport, trains and buses are a tiny fraction of long distance transport. Apply EASA aviation standards and the US network would grind to halt or create huge gaps in service. We’ve gone 16 years without a fatal US carrier major accident, which isn’t different than the rest of the world, especially when the US has a 50% share. Our economy would suffer greatly and passengers revolt at what would required.
Either proper safety evaluations have been done and an accident like this every few years is considered acceptable and/or everyone just closed their eyes and hoped it would not happen to them (but to someone else first).
Alternatively, you impose (IATA) slot constraints to your congested airports, just like the rest of the world does.