[hef19898]

Some companies in a regulated industry want less regulation. Big surprise.

But no, less regulation is not what we need in aviation, cars, food or medcine. Those regulations have litteraly been written in blood.

And guess how many of those lax airlines are allowed to land in e.g. the EU. Not that many, and those airlines from those regions that are allowed in European airpsace are adhering to EASA requirements, and thus are the opposite of lax.

No matter how you design an aircraft, and safety margins there are lower than for e.g. cars, with bad and lacking maintennace it becomes a safety hazard rather quickly.

[ultrarunner]

I don't disagree with your overall point, but I think it's important to keep in mind that these companies often want more regulation— especially regulation that they're already compliant with. Of course EASA compliant airlines don't want to open things up to airlines that can operate more cheaply. Whether or not that's solely a consideration of safety is less clear.

Age 67 is another example where unions do not want more competition. I imagine a hypothetical relaxation of CPL regs would be similarly opposed by airlines and unions alike as they certainly wouldn't welcome the resultant competition. Desire for regulation can have many motivations.

[mschuster91]

> But no, less regulation is not what we need in aviation, cars, food or medcine. Those regulations have litteraly been written in blood.

For the record: I fully agree with you, I just wanted to provide some context.