My girlfriend worked for EXCALIBUR and thought it was the best job she had ever had. Great people, small company, and a great success in the early days. Shame the media shot it down.
As a personal thought. I keep hearing comments from pax about the safety of aircraft that I operate and dead head in. I always reassure people the best I can. What I really want to say is "....no this aircraft is very dangerous but I am a daredevil with a deathwish, yeehah ride em cowboy." Unfortunately Einstein was right "there are only two things that are infinite, people's stupidity and the universe, and I'm not sure about the universe".
If it wasn't safe then the crew wouldn't fly the plane, simple really.
Harry hates media types