99% Plus of air traffic in North America flows without incident. For the most part the airlines do a great job moving people from place to place at a price that is as low if not lower than what we faced 20 or 30 years ago. Although not perfect the current regulatory structure which allows airlines to overbook their planes based on well documented no-show statistics works well and most importantly keeps costs down. Can you name any other industry that has faced as serious declines in their pricing yet still manages to keep going. This is truly a first world problem.