Recently, finger-pointing between airlines and the Department of Transportation (DOT) has become fashionable. Unfortunately, consumers are the ones getting poked in the eye.
The U.S. air travel network, despite its complexity, is the safest in the world. Scheduled commercial passenger airlines haven’t experienced a major fatal crash since 2009, and, over the past 25 years, government and industry have worked together to reduce fatality risk for commercial aviation by more than 95%. During this time, constant partnership and data-sharing through voluntary safety programs provided the impetus for tremendous improvements in aviation safety.
