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From: miket@brspyr1.brs.com (Mike Trout)
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Subject: Re: Divestiture, Business and the General Public
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Date: 18 Aug 89 18:41:47 GMT
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In article , goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com
(Bob Goudreau) writes:

> >Digression: airline deregulation is similarly bad. The benefits are
> >lost in the enormously higher risks as airlines ignore safety (take
> >Eastern Airlines, for example, (please?)).

> You picked a poor analogy by criticizing airline deregulation's effect
> on safety.  In fact, according to a recent article in the _Economist_,
> the decline in accidents & deaths per US aviation passenger mile has
> continued unabated, even throughout the past decade of deregulation.
> The truth is not that airline deregulation has led to "enormously
> higher risks"; rather, deregulation has had little effect on the
> historically increasing airline safety level.

Examining one set of statistics reported by one news organization proves
little.  Airline safety statistics can be used to prove that safety has never
been better, that it has never been worse, and everything in between.  Serious,
scholarly questions, with substantiation in fact, HAVE been raised regarding
the effect of deregulation upon airline safety.  Note the recent FAA special
safety exam of Eastern, in which it was stated that although there were no
specific safety problems worth citation now, it was inevitable that such
problems would develop in the future.  Let's keep this forum for the
discussion of telecommunications, and leave airline safety to the experts in
that field.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Michael Trout (miket@brspyr1)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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