UAL Traveler wrote:

Therefore, my choice of airlines has little to do with their safety records.
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I wish him all the best.

I fly only with airlines with a good reputation; all big US airlines, big European and Asian Airlines, and I try to avoid even commuter planes. I was very upset when I booked Swissair (coming ATL-ZHR on this airline) from Zuerich to Frankfurt and ended in a commuter from Crossair. A couple of weeks later, 2 Crossair planes crashed!
I understand Crossair "rents" pilots from Eastern Europe who have problems understanding and communicating in English.

I was sitting in a Lufthansa 747 "on the tarmac" for more the 3 hours. The "technical problem" turned out to be a malfuction of a bulb. I never complain about something like this - Better safe than sorry.