All things considered -- and remember, these airlines are flying in poor countries where a lot of the infra for air traffic control, airports etc is not up to s

All things considered -- and remember, these airlines are flying in poor countries where a lot of the infra for air traffic control, airports etc is not up to scratch -- AirAsia has a reasonable safety record: the only major crash suffered by the entire group (not just Indonesia AirAsia) was Flight 8501: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_AirAsia_Flight_8501 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_AirAsia_Flight_8501 Last I checked, AA uses Lufthansa Technik for its maintenance, so there's good third-party oversight. You can't say the same for Lion Air, which seems to write off its planes on an alarmingly regular basis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air#Incidents_and_accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air#Incidents_and_acciden...