<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JMN7W:
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.</font>
If large airlines like AA and UA are having the same rate of fatal accident, there'll be 4 fatal accidents annually for each of these airlines. Even on any bad year, it didn't happen that frequently.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JMN7W:
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.</font>
You are right that flying on any airline is safer than driving. However, when compared to their biggie brothers, AirTran really needs to get their act together.