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The FAA will soon not entirely bother with doing their job. A few planes fall out of the sky. No big thing. The airlines will just line up at the trough for you and I to feed just like they do, on average, every 24-30 months. Foreign carriers won't want to bother with the headaches of flying to the US which, as it becomes more and more expensive, will be an increasingly unattractive market for them anyway. The TSA will be blind deaf and dumb to this, decide that lower ridership = a need for more insane restrictions. And in a great big loop, it all goes round and round and soon enough there is no commercial air travel in the US to speak of. Private jets only. But since most of the country will be owned by Arabs anyway, they can use former airports like JFK and O'Hare to field their personal fleets of 787's. And you'll be able to point to sky one day and tell your incredulous grandchildren that ordinary people used to be able to fly.
