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Ed Markey: “If they can't figure out how to do it for their own passengers, then to give them, you know, the key seats on this kind…”

On the recordJune 6, 2017
If they can't figure out how to do it for their own passengers, then to give them, you know, the key seats on this kind of a board, it seems to me, given the record of safety of the existing system, would be, from my perspective, sequentially wrong.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey criticizes giving airlines control without proving safety improvements.

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