It’s more than a planning topic. A plane trip is atomic, you can’t cit it in pieces (it just becomes “more trips”). Once on a plane you are there till the end o

It’s more than a planning topic. A plane trip is atomic, you can’t cit it in pieces (it just becomes “more trips”). Once on a plane you are there till the end of the trip and flying 1mi or 10000mi is still one trip. The length of the trip has very little statistical impact on the outcome. Statistically most crashes are on takeoff or landing, length of flight doesn’t impact this. The point is that whether you crash in the first mile or the last mile, you still crashed on a trip. Since you can’t count 9999mi safe, and 1mi deadly then you’re realistically doing statistics on trips, then multiplying by miles but this just inflates the numbers and muddies the waters. The multiplication by miles isn’t obviously wrong but it’s definitely misleading. It’s the kind of thing that sounds relevant but isn’t really.