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...FAA's audit blitz began in the aftermath of the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 in January 2000. That airline not only had a widely admired safety record but also was operating under the careful view of the FAA's most rigorous oversight program, the Air Transportation Oversight System (ATOS). After the crash, the FAA rushed to discover what went wrong with its oversight as well as with the airplane's mechanical systems. Immediate changes were ordered in Alaska Airlines' operations...
Since then, the FAA has launched high-speed "safety audits" of the country's nine largest airlines. Critics, including the airlines, pilots and outside safety experts, are furious, charging that the process was flawed from the start, hastily done and staffed by inexperienced personnel. "For those passengers who wonder if the Federal Government is doing all it can to make flying safer, this safety-audit process represents exactly the wrong way to go," says Jim McKenna, the former safety writer for Aviation Week and now executive director of the Aviation Safety Alliance, an industry group set up to improve public...
...even particular flight. Online travel site Expedia.com also provides on-time stats for individual flights. Finally, make use of the Web to see how the Federal Aviation Administration is reacting to the weather. Seemingly irrelevant thunderstorms in Cleveland may delay your L.A.-to-New York flight because the FAA sometimes orders that flights be held on the runway if delays are building up in the crowded Northeast airspace. You can see what the FAA is looking at by going to its command center's website www.fly.faa.gov...
...Abolish the FAA...
...There. We said it. Once the throwaway line of antigovernment fanatics, this proposal isn't so far-out anymore. Repeated budget overruns and bureaucratic bungling - the FAA is spending $5 million to rebuild the tower at Miami airport because controllers couldn't see the runways clearly - has led to cries that the FAA must...