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You'll remember the ludicrous state the US airlines and FAA got into at various points last year which started with a genuine compliance issue in Southwest and exploded into the groundings of hundreds of aircraft over a period of weeks. It all culminated in the insanity of United's grounding of its 777 fleet pointlessly leaving passengers stranded all over the world. In between there were assorted bizarre sagas involving American and Delta MD-80s and American ERJ-145s. A hideously embarrassing episode for the industry.

Well, pretty much since then there has been an epic effort underway to overhaul the US airworthiness directive system, basically to instill some commonsense back into it.

And now, under new administrator Randy Babbitt, the plan is out. There's also a press release.