Of course it doesn't. Because it can't. But if the US becomes the country that writes the world's aviation regulation, it can and will abuse that position to the competitive advantage of US industry. Not because it's evil, but because it can, and it's not stupid. It's the role of a government.
Bookworm
Is not the biggest abuse of the system and crusher of competative advantage strangulation of the aviation industry caused by excessive regulation and burocratic intervention as well as any political and tax loading to pay for a big brother state?
Surely in any free market the market dictates? create freedom for that market and the competativeness comes naturally.
Was it not the Mrs T policy to load industry with the least amount of government and state intervention as possible now its gone the other way with maximum government intervention and needless interferance in every walk of life all costing the industry a strangling fortune and the very reason Europe is collapsing like a pack of cards? We cannot afford all that expensive rubbish anymore.
As for competativeness why do you think any labour intensive production goes to places like China India etc. With that argument you may as well put trade blocks to imports from those areas
Pace