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The airlines are clearly not ensuring that anything is perfect quality.

Flying is statistically much safer than driving. They may not ensure quality in many of their amenities, but their safety standards are as high as they come.

That's not exactly an apples to apples comparison the space shuttle's record sit's between cars and commercial aircraft in deaths per passenger mile. 14 deaths in 20k orbits * 7 people @ 42k miles per orbit. = 1 death per 420 million miles vs commercial aircraft which sit at 1 death per 2,000 million miles vs cars at 1 death per 80 million miles. But, the shuttle is not exactly a safe ride.

Now, if you line things up by trip, it's car's then aircraft then the shuttle.

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