The Airline Industry is in a deplorable state. Thousands of flights have been and continue to be cancelled. Innumerable travelers remain stranded in airports throughout the world. To a frightening and incontrovertible degree, Part 121 operations have degenerated into a wilderness of outrage, apologetics, labor disputes, and pilot shortages. How did it happen, and why?
A legal storm is brewing in California—a state that has doggedly pursued and deservedly earned a reputation for breathtaking short-sightedness. High taxes, endless regulations, massive litigation, rising crime, increasing homelessness, and a political prioritization of social and environmental policies over practical business solutions have precipitated an exodus of small and large companies from the Golden State. California’s latest target is the airline industry. The state seeks to require its onerous employee meal-and-rest-break laws to apply to all California flight attendants—even if their routes are entirely outside of California.
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