"N93332" wrote in message
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I'm not a parent so ignore this if you wish. I would think if you have
your (say) 10 and a 15 year old kids along with their friends for YE
flights that the each of the kids would prefer to fly with one of his
friends of the same age than with his sibling.

It really depends on the kids. Some siblings love to do stuff together.
Some do not. The point here is that what the kids would prefer to do should
probably guide the decision, not some morbid fear of killing two kids at
once.

If killing two kids at once is bad, then each flight should only take one
kid. Of course, that increases the exposure of the hazard to the pilot, but
probably not in a significant way. Screwing around with silly rules about
not putting related children on the same airplane is just that: silly.

It would still be a major tragedy if something should happen in another YE
flight with siblings or non-siblings. I hope it's at least another 1.2
million YE flights before the next tragedy.

Me too. But I think it's important to keep in mind that accidents do
happen, people do die, and there's precious little anyone can do to
*completely* prevent that from happening. A handful of fatalities (whether
2, 4, whatever) in over a million flights is a pretty good safety record,
IMHO. Great? No, probably not. But in context it's good.

I used to work for a company that had a policy that prohibited several
people from the same department to fly on the same airline flight. When a
group of us would fly to Singapore, we would fly 2 separate days. I
usually flew on the first day but my luggage would arrive the next day.
:-(

I've heard of similar policies at other companies. I think it's similarly
misguided. Employees traveling together may be able to accomplish business
while on the flight, and the risk of even one being killed in an accident is
remarkably small. There is greater hazard in allowing employees to drive to
lunch together in the same car every day, or to carpool to work for that
matter (activities that are generally not prohibited by those same
companies). Some companies not only allow employees to travel by air
together, they pay for the airplane! How can it be so important to one
company to keep their employees apart, and yet another is willing to put
them together on a higher-risk mode of transportation?

Frankly, a company that cannot withstand the loss of a couple of employees
is a company that has a pretty weak business plan.

Pete