Off on my holiday!

zepp76

Cirrus said:

Where in Italy are you going?

Tuscany, mainly Sorano, Pitigliano and Cinque Terre for a week then a train ride to Provence France for a week.

Emp_Fab

This is a picture of all of the airliners in the air over Europe right now, at 1am on a Thurs.  In the daytime, it's far busier.  At any given moment there are anywhere between 9,000 and 14,000 airliners in the air around the world.

ALL of them have backup systems for everything and often backups to those backups.  They are expertly controlled by highly-trained pilots, ultra cautious air traffic controllers and hyper-vigilant computer systems constantly monitored by even more vigilant experts.  It is like this every day of every week of every year.  Hundreds of thousands of planes going from A to B, day in - day out, never ever coming closer than three miles horizontally and a thousand feet vertically (and 99% of the time it's a shitload more than that).

The number of crashes where people die are microscopically tiny in comparison.  It's probably something like the same odds as you playing darts blindfold all night and scoring 180 with each blind throw for hours on end.

You are at a MUCH greater risk of death sitting in the bath with a good book.

jonnyburgo

You'll be fine and if you really need to get out then most modern planes have at least 2 doors, don't worry.