[spa942]

How about acknowledging that the rules may be overreaching, yet be thankful that the airline industry likes to err on the side of safety?

[mikeash]

The risk of dying in an airliner crash in the US is now literally too small to measure. I think we can afford to loosen up a bit.

[excuse-me]

I would love the airlines to err on safety. By making the seats out of a fire resistant non-toxic foam, before they were made to after a series of accidents. By fitting smoke hoods nearly 50 years after is they were first recommended.

And by the FAA spending a 0.1% of what the TSA costs on weather radar at small airports .....