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Which Southwest crashes are you thinking about? They have never lost a passenger in a crash, though one person on the ground was killed in Chicago. There have been two accidental passenger deaths. One was due to engine failure, not a crash, and the other was a passenger who tried to get into the cockpit and died after being restrained.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines#Accidents_a...

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Admittedly I thought they had more than they do because of all the hoopla about 737s. I guess the one recent incident that comes to mind is the broken fan blade incident that killed a passenger. That could easily be attributed to lack of maintenance but it blew over relatively fast. However, the heroics of the captain created a different story.

^^ this.

Southwest has one of the best, if not the best, safety records of all major air carriers.

The point is that Ryanair is the best.

They are smaller than Southwest on most (not all) metrics, but in the same ballpark.

Their only accident is a bird strike causing 8 minor injuries.

How can you say an airline that is 35 years old is clearly better than one that is 52 years old based on total anything?

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