> With airplanes, everyone knows they're really safe. Everyone says they're safer than cars. Though true by many metrics, the fact that this has entered into t

> With airplanes, everyone knows they're really safe. Everyone says they're safer than cars. Though true by many metrics, the fact that this has entered into the public zeitgeist is a victory in marketing. While commercial air travel is much safer per hour and per KM, it is less safe by the metric used by the industry and its insurers: Deaths per journey.[1] However, there's a strong argument to be made that time and distance are more relevant to the consumer anyways. Still, the per-journey metric could have been weaponized by an opponent of commercial air travel to assert the opposite. [1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16321985-200-flight-into-danger/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16321985-200-flight-i...