Where does the idea that AirTran is unsafe come from?? It comes from the media who are the most subjective and misleading resource on airline safety there is. CNN, MSNBC et al will do anything to get viewers and one of the tings they do is create an overly unrealistic portrayl of how "unsafe" it is to fly. They do this because they know people will buy into their bogus stories.

Airtran has a fatal accident rate of 5.88 per million flights. That means that the chance of any given Airtran flight is about 1 in 175,000. You would have to take 175,000 flights before you were involved in a fatal crash. Think about that.

Yet CNN and ABC are lighting up the airwaves with stories about how Airtran planes are winged coffins. They are creating a moral panic and it is shameful. Even more suprising is that people believe this. They see morons like John Norris and Mary Sciavo screaming about how Airtran or the Dc9 are deathtraps, just to get their faces on TV.

So fly Airtran, fly Korean, fly a Swiss MD11 (murder 11, i like that) and fly them knowing that you are several orders of magnitude safer than you were in the TownCar that took you to the airport.

Cheers
Jesse