Quote Originally Posted by Pat View Post
I am going to disagree with that philosophy Trey. The airlines are interested in backing out of the gate for an on time departure and would probably do anything to up their numbers. Unfortunately, that would come at the safety of us. Each airline would have their own set of rules, etc. It would be chaos. Now if the airlines collectively take over as one, that would be different
Nope. Each airline has a huge interest in their own personal safety, much more than the TSA agent standing at the gate.

Why not put the gov't in charge of airplane maintenance? It's exactly the same. There's a reason the airlines do it.....