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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure I want an unsafe plane to fly to avoid paying delay fines. Maintenance issues can crop up any time.[/quote]

The proposed rule had nothing to do with maintenance.  It would have only applied when there were delays because of issues under the airlines control.  The EU, Canada and the UK have similar delay compensation rules that this was going to model, and they don't have any more maintenance/safety issues than the US does.[/quote]

Maintenance delays can trigger compensation. It has a lot to do with m maintenance. Maintenance is under their control, weather is not.[/quote]

Okay, then why haven't planes been falling out of the sky in Europe and Canada?  [/quote]

If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Airlines will just jack the prices up making air travel even more expensive and find even more ways to make the issue out of their control and not reimbursable.[/quote]

Take a look at airfares in Europe and let me know if they aren't competitive.  Again, somehow they have been able to make it work there, and the credible threat of a direct cost of delays/cancellations has properly incentivized the airlines to avoid them more often.  This is internalizing an externality with the party who can control it, appropriately.

https://onemileatatime.com/news/cash-compensation-delayed-flights-trump-cancels-biden-plan/

"Studies have even shown that these regulations have caused a decrease in avoidable delays, both in terms of the number of delays, and the length of each delay. "[/quote]

Why don't you make the case that it would definitely work here? I don't think it will. You have to do the convincing, not me.[/quote]

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