s legislation that would allow pilots to carry loaded handguns into the cockpit. ALPA and APFA know that their members are directly in the line of danger when it comes to hijacked airliners. These two groups want to do what it takes to increase security before, during and after flight. NATCA is simply looking into ways of being able to detect that a plane is hijacked or run off course. There are some devices in place now, but none that are foolproof. Members of IAM are looking to make sure that the manufacturing plants and in turn the commercial airlines stay in full business so that they will remain working. At any cost IAM wants to make sure that the attacks will not indirectly cost them their jobs.Overall, while the labor organizations are powerful, they must first go through their own industries before we can or they can satisfy our nations needs right now.Government SectorThere are two main actors in the government sector of our domestic airline safety policy. There are the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), who reports to the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the United States Congress, to whom we will propose our policy. The FAA, is the division of the DOT that is responsible for all United States airspace and enforces all regulations upon the airlines, the airplanes and the airports. The FAA is basically under our chain of command and truly will enforce policy once it is approved. The FAA is looking to heighten security measures at the airport and in the air. The FAA wants more federalized security at airports and an increase in the Federal Air Marshal Program. These increases will require an increase in the budget of the DOT and the FAA. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is the United States government authority responsible for maintaining the standards of the United States aviation industry. The NTSB will play a core role in our policy, because they will be the authority over all the new sa...
