AccidentsDelays are the type of air travel inconvenience we are most personally familiar with, but the most salient and fearful source of quality decline in air travel comes from safety. On first glance, it looks like air travel accidents are continuing on a steady downward trend. Overall, the safety record of air travel is stellar and still getting better. Recent anecdata about the quality of air travel has been universally negative, at least in my experience. Whether this nets out in air travel being worse than it was in the past is difficult to say, but it is clear that air travel could be much better than it is today.