Originally Posted by
Lovethecabin
Friends of ours used to fly separately but it is for a business reason. They often traveled with his parents and they owned a business together. DIL and Dad would take one flight, Mom and son would take another. Seems overly paranoid but they knew a family where all the business owners and key management, three generations, died in a car accident.
But they could all be sitting in a restaurant when a semi plows into it. The risks are both so pervasive and so minimal there is no rational basis for altering your behavior in response. Especially when you get crazed about separate airline flights but do all sorts of other, technically more dangerous things together.