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The travel agent concludes that passengers are safer on major airlines than on low-fare airlines. He supports this by saying that most major airlines have long-standing, reliable safety records, while low-fare airlines often don’t have enough history to establish reliable safety records.
The travel agent draws a comparative conclusion about major airlines being safer than low-fare airlines. However, he doesn’t actually establish the safety of either kind of airline, so he can’t accurately compare the two.
Just because major airlines have reliable records doesn’t mean that those records indicate that the airlines are safe. In fact, the reliable records might show that major airlines are unsafe. Similarly, just because low-fare airlines don’t have established safety records doesn’t mean that they are actually unsafe.
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