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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 9:17 pm
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Originally Posted by WillCAD
Perhaps, but airlines are not social engineers whose policies and procedures are designed to make the entire world a safer place for children; they are air transportation providers whose purpose is to provide the safest carriage from point A to point B while maximizing ROI for their investors. How many children may be killed in car crashes has no bearing on airline policies, and no airline will, or should, make a value jugement that it's perfectly okay to endanger the health and safety of pax in the air to offset a POSSIBLE, hypothetical danger on the ground.
I might agree, except, AFAIK it's not the airlines that are making that decision (for domestic US travel), it's the FAA. I'm glad the FAA* thinks that decisions resulting in fewer dead children are better than decisions resulting more dead children (but fewer killed in aircraft).

The dangers posed by road travel are more POSSIBLE and no more hypothetical than the dangers facing lap children.

*: Unlike the TSA, but that's for another forum.
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