Originally Posted by
WillCAD
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.
No, but any legislation on health and safety *absolutely should* consider the whole system.
The TSA is a good example. If the TSA cause sufficient people to drive rather than fly by way of overzealous security, that security might actually reduce overall safety of transportation.
Neil