As someone who has refused to fly since Christmas due to the unnecessary restrictions that are now placed on me, I found this article interesting. I have also enjoyed driving much better as my mode of transportation for travel. My only movement restrictions are self imposed. Wilt Alston wrote a great piece at Campaign for Liberty that everyone should read.
From C4L:
“The federal government fined three airlines $175,000 Tuesday for stranding passengers on a plane overnight at the Rochester, Minnesota, airport in August.” ~ Gary Stoller, from the USA TODAY
Almost everyone who has ever flown on a commercial flight in the U.S. has found themselves sitting on the tarmac, waiting to take off or waiting to arrive at a gate and deplane. Sometimes these waits can get long. Sometimes they can get really long. I suspect, however, that no matter your horror story, you have not been stranded on a plane as long as the folks on the Continental ExpressJet flight in Minnesota in August of 2009. There’s long and then there’s all night long. Ouch. (Can a brother get a pillow?)
There is much for the student of government inefficiency to learn from the comedy of errors that led to that debacle. Certainly, the advent of increased airport security, courtesy of the TSA, in the post-9/11 world in which we live, can be blamed to some extent. Without misplaced reliance upon draconian and poorly-conceived security screening procedures, this event would not have happened.
This post originally appeared at Liberty Movement HQ.
