Re: Battle of the regulators?
I think the safest option, as always, is to have a regulator from another country/region doing the main work. That way they have less political pressure and less "capture" effect.
Sure it might go the other way, but at least spurious objections have to be properly dealt with and if found to be bollocks, then someone is taken down a few strips. The reverse is you get the current arrangement of the FAA rubber-stamping Boeing’s statements, something which will cost Boeing, the FAA, and ultimately the USA far more in the long run.
Edited to add: Yes I might be a European and so might be assumed to support Airbus, but the loss of competition from a failing Boeing would cost us dearly as well.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
