Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Constitution doesn't forbid it
Of course it does. 10th Amendment.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
the constitution doesn't authorize you to fly airplanes either.
Per the 9th Amendment, it doesn't have to. In fact the feds have no authority to regulate flight at all, other than across national borders. If the Constitution were amended to allow the FAA, then it would be Constitutional.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
And the airlines are a very key economic pillar... the economy will not come back without them, or at least not as anything recognizable and certainly not within a decade. Too many other sectors would have to completely collapse and then re-invent themselves, or be replaced by something new. That would take 10-30+ years and result in global human misery beyond reckoning.
That's crazy talk. Where there is a demand someone will step in to fill the supply. Econ 101.