The article attempts to argue that we should hold other industries, including airport management to the same extremely high safety standards that airlines have

The article attempts to argue that we should hold other industries, including airport management to the same extremely high safety standards that airlines have to face. I've always thought it interesting to ask if air-travel is too safe. Have we over-optimized it and could we allocate those resources to areas where they would provide a larger impact? For example if we did not require a fire-station at each airport, would we have budget to increase hospital/clinic funding?