Originally Posted by
TTex600
A market solution would exclude government "oversight" in all ways and safety would be dictated by the customers. In such an environment, airline X could sell tickets based entirely on price and airline Y could sell tickets on properly maintained birds - properly trained pilots - adequate fuel loads, etc.
This market solution, how is it working out for all the people who live, walk, loiter or posses land and property under the flight and potential crash paths? Will the airlines have to get individual permission from each of these people, pay life insurance for them and compensate individually for noise and other emissions? Who owns the air the airlines obviously need for their business, who "rents" it out to them, at what price, who sets the conditions?