60 Minutess reports Serious Safety Problems for Allegiant Airlines

[Bill Greenwood]

Do "all airlines have safety problems" violations and fines? Southwest has been operating for 47 years, has an execellent reputation as a place to work, and not just word of mouth, the facts are that they have never had a passenger fatality from a crash. They did once overshoot a ice wet runway into a car on the road and with a fatality. And bad as the passenger treatment may be on United which was sort of like Ultimate Fighting for one passenger, and both United and Jet Blue stranding passengers on the plane for 8 hours, no U S major carrier has had a single fatality in bout 5 years, despite the millions of passengers flown. No train, taxi,elevator, escolator, subway, or ship can match that record.
I have no connection with any airline other than owning Southwest stock and used to own a small amount of Am West.