Excellent. I like and agree with all your minimums and we might add some more value added items like a functioning bathroom, snacks, water or other beverages, etc. But at a bare minimum yours work fine.
So we have no regulatory agency overseeing flight safety from maintenance to pilot quality to security. You and I own an airline together. As our marketing director how do you suggest we advertise (truthfully as fraud is always illegal) our airline to our clients?
Would we emphasize our Six Sigma maintenance program? How often our planes are refurbished? Our flight safety record? Our AAA insurance company in case of any loss? How modern our fleet is? That covers (1) & (2).
How about the years of flying experience of our pilots? Their training and hours on the aircraft they fly? Our hiring procedure in which we only employ teetotalers as pilots? That we random drug test? That covers (3) & (4).
Next we could emphasize our pilot’s training in inflight combat on board an aircraft and their proficiency with small arms. We might mention that we randomly place our own security people trained to Mossad levels of lethality in combating terrorists or that our flight crew is similarly trained. We might emphasize our passenger and baggage screening programs. How about that for (5) & (6)?
Finally, we would mention that since absolute deregulation of air travel we’re part owners of the Air Traffic Control system and have purchased from the now privately owned airports our own “gates” owned like residential/commercial condos by our airline guaranteeing us clutter free run ways, ontime departures/landings, etc.
All that is something we’d do outside of the “regulators” purview just to compete. Why wouldn’t it work?
“So we have no regulatory agency overseeing flight safety from maintenance to pilot quality to security. “
FAA.. .perhaps?
They have that responsibility (except for the “security” part, DHS has that). Now, if you want to talk about effectiveness, that’s different, as the FAA has in place flight examiners that NEVER WERE PILOTS (because they fill diversity quotas).