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Per billion journeys is an idiotic way of measuring. Per passenger mile is the correct way.

• roenxi 3y ago
  That seems extreme, why aren't those measures reasonable? Although if we're using journeys; notice that a daily commute will clock in around 500 journeys a year. So while a Boeing 737 MAX plane flight could be called unsafe, unless someone is continuously flying around the risk is still at levels that people find acceptable. Even for the pilots, who are flying a 737 MAX as their day job, they're still at levels of risk consistent with someone who drives around on a motercycle. I can see why they wouldn't like that and want something to be done, but we're still not at crazy levels here. This is just lower than the standards the airline industry usually works to.
• happymellon 3y ago
  Per billion journeys makes sense to me. Per passenger mile is an idiotic way to measure. Shall I take the train from London to Edinburgh today to visit the client or the plane. I am more likely to die from that trip if I take the plane if you look at the likelihood that a single trip would result in my death or not. The only way you could be against having a holistic view of travel is by either being in the airline industry and it paying to be ignorant or you are American and have no other choice so you have to justify the restrictions that other people put on you and feel okay about it.
  • jen20 3y ago
    Wrong on all counts, sorry. And if you’ve ever walked up to a station in London and bought a same day train ticket to Edinburgh, you’d sure wish you’d flown instead when you look at the price tag…