Reply #6: How long did the airlines fight required installation of cockpit security doors? [View All]

[Zenlitened]

:grr: That turned out just fine, huh? :grr:

The article doesn't give details, but just what are the chemical companies being asked to do that's so terribly, horribly onerous? (Note hint of sarcasm.)

I mean, the airlines fought against installing doors, for cryin' out loud. Went on and on, hyperventilating that it would be the death of the industry. As they do every time some sort of regulation is proposed.

Well, boys... how'd that 9/11 thing work out for the airline biz? Seems the horror of watching the planes impact, of watching the towers come down, of watching the bodies pulled from the rubble in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania... seems it put kind of a damper on the public's enthusiasm for air travel.

And... it led directly to a whole host of new regulations on the industry. Doesn't anybody learn? Waiting to act until after the disaster is far more costly -- in lives as well as dollars -- than doing that "voluntary self-regulation" thing we hear so much about. Which, as is painfully plain to see, is nothing but lip-service.

:crazy: