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Old Apr 27, 2014, 8:51 pm
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txp
 
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Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
Appreciate why one would have concerns with their personal safety but your travel to/form the airport is a far greater safety risk -- the deterioration of our surface transportation infrastructure is a far more serious risk to you.
Great point, of course, and hard to disagree with this!

Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
As said, UA is under-preforming but what was the safety record of the domestic legacies as they went through BK?? A far, far more serious financial situation.
Good point. If memory serves me well, at least during this last round of bankruptcies (past 10 years or so), I cannot think of any higher accident rate for AA, DL, US, (old) UA, and the others as they went through reorganization.

Last edited by J.Edward; Apr 27, 2014 at 9:51 pm Reason: Merge
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