The aviation industry has several distinct segments. Briefly describe the segments and the labor laws and practices identified with each. a) Aviation Manufacturing b) The Air Transport Sector 1) Major and National Airlines 2) Regional and Commuter Airlines c) General Aviation d) Government Aviation Solution a) Aviation Manufacturing In this segment, the industry focuses on manufacturing airplanes of all kinds. We have within this aviation manufacturing two segments: commercial and warfare manufacturing. The laws and regulations are different for those two segments of the manufacturing. the purposes of them are different, commercial aviation manufacturing is intended to make airplanes for commercial purposes, it is, to transport passengers and load, while the warfare aviation is only intended for national defense purposes. b) The Air Transport Sector This is the commercial aviation sector. In this segment we find companies that are intended to service people who needs to fly from one place to another, as well as render a service in load transportation, it is, mailing services. The regulations in this sector intend to influence and determine proceedures of entrance to the air transportation market, as well as regulations about facilites, technical regulations about roads, planes, personel profile, check in proceedures and other national security affairs that may appear on the way. The regulations for entrance to the market of new companies has been relaxed lately in 1984 (http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AirlineDeregulation.html). Major and National Airlines Majors provide air transportation services nation wide and world wide. Some of them are: Alaska, American, American Eagle, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest, United and US Airways. They are subject to CAB requierements. National airlines provide air transportation services for a region within the US only, though sometimes they service for international flights of passenger transportation and load haul as well. They are subject to DOT fitness requirements, as well as the FAA Part 121 operating requirements (http://www.avjobs.com/history/structure-of-the-airline-industry.asp) Regional and Commuter Airlines Regional companies are restricted to a single region of the country. The regional divide in three segments: Large, medium and small. This segmentation is according to the size of the planes and the ammount of money in transactions these companies may move in a year. The small regional companies are called commuters. See more at http://www.avjobs.com/history/structure-of-the- airline-industry.asp Rules, Regulations, and Enforcement (taken from AAAE, 2005) Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 13 addresses the investigative and enforcement procedures of the FAA. The FAA has been granted authority by Congress to assess civil penalties not to exceed $50,000 for certain violations of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 as amended. In the event of a violation of an FAR, the FAA is require.