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Well, whatever. Yes, I agree that Southwest is a great airline and that their prices are cheap. But they get those cheap prices by cutting a lot of stuff out that increases costs for others. Like you mention, they use all the same jets, this cuts down on repair costs. But they don't decrease prices through increased safety. Safety costs money, it doesn't save money. Unless you're crashing so many planes that it winds up keeping people away. (And yes, they have had crashes, but it has been a long time since their last one.)
Anyway, this hangup on Southwest and ValuJet, etc. is distracting (but not detracting) from my main point. My main point is that safety is a feature, and features come in all sorts of different qualities. The fact is, there are safer airlines than others. And no one is forced to ride the more expensive, safer airlines. (at least safer in the respect that they use more safety equipment/measures, which isn't the same thing as a lower miles flown per cost of crash)
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