Democrats propose measure requiring airlines to pay cash for significant delays

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2. "Dems will be blamed for not allowing the time to fix problems"

The problem is not so much the maintenance (although that is an issue), it's the GREED of scheduling too many flights and then overbooking what is scheduled, and that coupled with re-configuring planes with less seat room in order to pack more seats in, means the passengers have a triple whammy. It promotes "cascading delays" if one flight gets delayed for weather, and then that plane, which was due to be used for another leg of a trip at a different airport, generates new delays down the line for that vehicle's scheduled flights.

And it's bad enough having a plane sit on a runway for hours and hours (rather than be able to go back to the terminal) and that is also something that they have tried to address time and time again.