Originally Posted by
greentips
The airlines no longer care since it is no longer on their balance sheets, they do not have to carry liability insurance and their airplanes are full.
That's utterly ridiculous. When things like AA 587 and Colgan 3407 happen, you can be damn sure those airlines make sure they have liability insurance.
Originally Posted by
greentips
To fix the problem:
1. restore tort liability to the airlines and their insurers.
2. make the airlines responsible for their own security and its costs.
3. defund the public screening portion of the TSA.
Sounds good, but I'm not ready to pay a minimum of $1,000 for a ticket from San Francisco to L.A. even with 28-day advance purchase.
Don't be so sure that sounds totally ridiculous, because it would take something like that for airlines to assume all that responsibility and get insurance coverage.
Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
Someone suggested that screening should once again be the job of airlines. And at length, it caused me to wonder: What if they don't WANT it again? Has anyone ever asked them if they are unhappy losing the job?
It has actually been discussed before, both here in this forum and in general public.
As I understand it, the biggest hangup has to deal with liability. It's not necessarily liability insurance, but rather who assumes liability should something happen.
Take the liability angle aside for a moment. The biggest reasons, I think security will never go private again is the combination of the airlines not willing to take on that added expense, plus the government never willing to let go of power once they get it.