Matt Gurney: Everyone knows flying cheap can be uncomfortable. But who knew it might also mean planes without all the safety features?
When you buy a ticket on a discount airline, you go in expecting certain annoyances. You are not expecting that the plane itself is a discount model, and that the price savings have come at the cost of leaving out safety features.
In general, they don’t seem to be. There is not a major difference between discount and regular air carriers in safety. Just over a year ago, after a woman was killed by an engine failure aboard a Southwest Airlines flight, USA Today tried to rank U.S. air carriers by safety, and concluded it was almost impossible. The aviation industry in North America has become so safe that it’s statistically difficult to compare them on the basis of accidents and fatalities.
This is good news. But in the aftermath of the twin disasters involving Boeing’s 737 MAX 8, with more than 300 people dead in Asia and Africa, there’s obviously renewed focus on safety, and what’s been discovered is alarming. But we do know that neither Lion Air nor Ethiopian Airlines spent the extra money for those safety systems. The passengers and crew of those airlines were denied even the chance that the extra warnings could have saved their lives.
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