Epsom Hold 2
You are probably quite right in making the observation that:
[F]or me and most people, safety is assumed as an invariable across all airlines.
That you and most people make this assumption is merely a measure of your, and most people's, gross ignorance of aviation matters.
It might be better that you concentrate upon your stated alternative interests of music and writing than to comment so naively upon things about which you clearly know so very little.
The answer to your rudely self-answered question is a resounding YES.
[ 31 October 2001: Message edited by: tilii ]