Yesterday American Airlines stranded thousands of additional travelers as it grounded more than a thousand flights. It claims that the FAA is at fault in the groundings because the FAA had not previously enforced its rules on regulatory inspections, leading American to believe that it need not comply.
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Beware of the small print in your insurance contract: you can't negotiate the language or change it; but the insurer and some judges will strangle you with it.
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Recent revelations from the Congressional testimony relating to the Southwest Airlines maintenance debacle suggest that the Federal Aviation Agency is not conducting the safety regulation that we assumed.
Last week, Southwest was fined more than 10 million dollars to penalize inspection lapses; days later it found another inspection problem and grounded 38 jets.
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