I still fly using facts. It’s dumb to drive if you won’t fly.

Heck no

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Anonymous wrote:No. I’m waiting until impeached and removed.
My concern now is I have a relative flying in on March 13 who may be stranded here if govt shutdown on 14th. Will trains run? Just not planes due to tsa?

Transportation will likely be normal for several days after the start of a shutdown.

In previous shutdowns it was not affected. I don’t recall it ever shutting down except after 9/11.

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Anonymous wrote:In the US, 2.9 million passengers fly on 45,000 flights a day. It’s still extremely safe, even if it’s slightly less safe than it was before Musk.

Now do the last 5 weeks.

Still safe. 101,500,000 people have flown in the last 5 weeks. If 100 died for easy math) that means your chance of dying was .000099% in the last five weeks.

Anonymous wrote:In the US, 2.9 million passengers fly on 45,000 flights a day. It’s still extremely safe, even if it’s slightly less safe than it was before Musk.

Now do the last 5 weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:No, already switched one of our trips to drive instead.

How logical.

How data based.

Enough data for me. It's my life.

Anonymous wrote:No. I’m waiting until impeached and removed.
My concern now is I have a relative flying in on March 13 who may be stranded here if govt shutdown on 14th. Will trains run? Just not planes due to tsa?

Transportation will likely be normal for several days after the start of a shutdown.

My teen is flying home from a school trip today and DH flies out Thursday and also has trips in March and April for work. Then we have spring break flights and two sets of summer flights.

No plans to change it - this is our life.

we're all guinea pigs.

Even a couple of years ago, Lindsey Graham’s proposal to increase pilot numbers by reducing the required 1,500 hours of flight time for certification scared me about how Republicans would handle aviation when unchecked.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116650102/proposals-would-ease-standards-raise-retirement-age-to-address-pilot-shortage

No thanks, I’ll take my life over delay inconvenience alleviation. But DEI, right? 🙄

No. I’m waiting until impeached and removed.
My concern now is I have a relative flying in on March 13 who may be stranded here if govt shutdown on 14th. Will trains run? Just not planes due to tsa?

I hate to fly and always have. But I have to fly this week and don’t feel any less safe. Statistically flying is very, very safe. The reason you know about these crashes is because they are so rare so they make news. That said, I do prefer flying on the bigger planes.

In the US, 2.9 million passengers fly on 45,000 flights a day. It’s still extremely safe, even if it’s slightly less safe than it was before Musk.

My family is planning to fly San Francisco to San Diego in the spring. But because of the issue with the air traffic controller contract in San Carlos (small airport whose take off path crosses SFO’s landing path) we might fly back to San Jose and take the train from there. If things get worse we’ll drive instead and cancel our plane tickets but currently I think the drive is still far riskier than flying.

Incidents seem to be happening more frequently. I do not feel safe flying.

People on plans seem to be crazier and crazier. I do not feel comfortable flying with crazies.

This is why I avoid flying. I will drive 10 hours to avoid a 2 hour flight.