Why We Regulate
Anyone else think it’s ridiculous that we need congressional legislation to force airlines to give their airline pilots enough rest so as to, for instance, not be too tired safely to fly a plane full of people?
When private industry refuses to police itself, and treats labor more as a commodity than a human being, government has to step in to regulate it.
Oh, and FedEx and UPS are excluded from the law, and their pilots aren’t thrilled with that.
Will this prevent crashes? Nope. Will it hopefully eliminate one of the risk factors that lead to pilot-error crashes? Yep.