Precisely. If you want a high-end dinner and an open bar with a lay-down bed while you fly, well you pay for it, and if you fly Emirates, you can even have a shower thrown in.

I want to fly from LA to NY with these amenities. Will Emirates fly me there?

You're not getting a shower or a stand up bar, but the rest, sure: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/where-to-find-lie-flat-seat...

(I even had a nice salmon meal on my last business flight between Austin to LAX, in fact, which seemed opulent, but I wasn't complaining!)

This sort of quality of life bump for the few pales compared to the huge improvement for the many if we only accepted that it was just a coincidence that 9/11 happened with planes.

Cities, especially metro stations, malls and stadiums are much more dense and packed than planes are and yet we are much more confident about getting in there than we are about planes

Doesn’t make any logical sense