Eh, I know pre-9/11 is ancient history to some adults these days, but the airline industry has been regulated since there have been airlines, and it has nothing to do with terrorism, it’s to do with if you don’t practice due diligence with your airplanes they will fall out of the sky, or collide with each other, or start throwing passengers out mid-ocean to save fuel, and we don’t want to give them economic races-to-the-bottom excuses to start doing those things.
Besides, do you think it would give any airline executive pause if his planes got shot down because he skimped on psychological testing for his pilots, say? He won’t be on the plane, he has his own private jet.
