It now seems that the Federal Aviation Administration has cited several safety violations against both United States Airways and United Airlines. Thus, it seems that the Federal Aviation Administration wants to levy multimillion dollar penalties on both of the carriers for these violations in the safety code.

The Federal Aviation Administration went on to say on Wednesday that it now proposed a $5.4 million fine against United States Airways for operating eight planes on a total of 1,647 flights from October 2008 to January 2009. Although this may not seem like a big deal, this is in clear violation of safety directives or the company’s own maintenance rules.

The agency went on to say that it is imposing another $3.8 million fine against United Airlines for allegedly operating one of its own Boeing 737 aircrafts on more than 200 flights after the carrier had violated its own maintenance procedures on one off the plane’s engines. These two fines that are proposed would actually represent the highest finds that the Federal Aviation Administration has ever given out, when measured to the number of planes that are involved.

Some say that the penalties are too high and that it comes at a bad time for the airline industry. Some experts also point out that it is very possible that the airlines had broke their own maintenance rules due to financial problems. However, until more information is given out on the proposed fines and whether or not they will get the go ahead, most of what experts are saying just simply represents their own take on the matter at hand.