"FAA controls airlines and guess what? it is run by ex airline employees which means it is a good old boys club which means the airlines can do anything they want and get away with it (rats are guarding the cheese)."
This is what is known as regulatory capture - when whatever industry is being regulated "captures", or gains control of, the agency doing the regulation. Guess what? It happens with EVERY regulatory agency! If you have a state regulatory agency responsible for setting utility rates, I'm willing to bet that a majority of the commissioners come from the electric utility industry. The FCC is dominated by companies in the communications industry, and the FDA is dominated by people from the Pharmaceutical industry. It is the natural and entirely predictable consequence of politics - the industry being regulated has the most to gain or lose, depending on which way the regulations go, so they spend their lobbying money making certain that the regulations work for them - keeping prices high enough to make a profit, imposing standards and requirements sure to prevent competitors who might challenge their business (see, for example, municipal regulation of the taxi industry, and how those regulations are structured to keep Uber and Lyft out of the markets). And why voters are idiots for believing any politician who claims that we need more government regulations.