Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!CAMPUS!AJP93 From: AJP93@CAMPUS.SWARTHMORE.EDU Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics Subject: RE: Crash landing in Marguette Message-ID: <90058.2134.AJP93@CAMPUS> Date: 27 Feb 90 21:34:00 GMT Sender: Forum for the Discussion of Politics Reply-To: Forum for the Discussion of Politics Lines: 11 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway Actually, airports would only have to strive to do as well as their competition. Since none would like to spend more than necessary to be safe, they would get together and decide, as a group, on minimum safety standards to keep public confidence in air travel relatively high. Actually, your choice of airports is a prime example of where open competition wouldn't work. We could hardly have 25 different Boston international airports, for example; exceedingly inefficient. Yet if we had only one, monopoly ensues: the consumer gets screwed. --andy perrin