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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: Flying is still safe, for now — but the FAA isn’t
Description: So today I’m talking to Andy Hawkins, The Verge’s transportation editor, about what’s going on in the skies. Andy just edited a big piece for us by writer Darryl Campbell that helps put a lot of what’s happening in air travel right now in perspective. It has some very reassuring data points, but it also raises important questions about what we need to do next to reinstill confidence in air travel.Andy and I talked about how safe it really is to fly right now — extremely safe, it turns out — and how the...