The need for ever-increasing revenue, combined with increasingly sensationalized and tasteless media coverage, sometimes moves people to make dubious marketing decisions. Click on images to see enlarged photos. Nothing could be further from the truth. Reality and statistics demonstrate that air travel is safer than road travel by a remarkably large margin. Some experts estimate that your odds of being in a fatal airline accident are 3 million to 1.
Most pilots go through their entire careers without a major incident.
As one visitor suggested in our discussion board, count the number of automobile accidents that you hear of in one week, including your local traffic reports. Then count the number of commercial airplane crashes that you hear of in a week. The point is that if you cancel your airline reservations today and decide to drive to your destination, you aren't in the hands of skilled pilots anymore. You are among countless inexperienced, irresponsible and drunk drivers just feet away from you driving along the freeway at 70 miles per hour. Compare that to your own driving experience.