The safety, even on the budget airlines is amazing. You wonder though, if they sold seats for $50, to get to the other side of the world, but you had a 10% chance of dying, how many people would take it.

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camgunz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nilay Patel (I'm gonna get this slightly wrong) has this story where he was talking to an airline CEO about standing-only tickets and the guy said "I know two things. If we did standing-only tickets we'd get roasted by the public, and those tickets would need the most popular tickets by far."

	▲	kqr 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This was RyanAir's CEO. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/feb/28/ryanair-sta...

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seydor 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

people pay a lot more for private jets which are comparatively a lot more dangerous

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skinfaxi 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This would make for an interesting aspect of a dystopian future. Accepted liability as a slider basically. There would obviously be entire regimes around auditing the published numbers (since companies would be incentivized to make their options appear less risky than they are). Pretty anarcho-capitalist.

	▲	arjie 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah but it’s 1% that you bought though 2 out of 100 of the last flights crashed. You ask for a refund or you pull out the pandas to check the likelihood they aren’t living up to the promise?