Hooray for Steven Slater!

Hooray for Steven Slater! He like many others have had enough with rude passengers, long delays on the tarmac, porno body scanners, unprofitable or barely profitable airlines, but that is not the whole story. Despite so-called de-regulation in the 80's the air travel industry is still heavily regulated by the Federal government. The airlines are restricted in how they do business is so many ways the first is the fact that since the 60's the Federal government has been responsible for security at airports. The Feds are responsible for preventing the airlines from arming their pilots in the cockpit or anywhere else, the unintended consequence was what happened on 911! The city and county governments also own the airports in most cities so customer service is not necessarily the first rule of business, getting State and Federal subsidies is. The libertarian solution would be to privatize both airport security and airport ownership. The owners would be fully liable for any breach in security and held fully accountable by law. In a true free market the consumer/customer is king and service is priority one.....we now have conflicting stories from passengers on board that flight about who was rude to whom...