However, it is a bet emboldened by the knowledge that there is an emergency room nearby that has to take you in should something go wrong with the plan not to get sick or seriously injured.
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Recent mergers, such as of United and Continental in 2010, and British Airways and Iberia in 2011, have led airlines to reduce service in North America and Europe, combining formerly overlapping routes to cut costs (and hike fares in the newfound absence of competition), resulting in fuller planes and fewer alternatives should something go wrong.
"The last place you want something to go wrong is up in the air, " Frattarelli says.
At some point something will go wrong and you'll have to pay it all back.
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"If something did go wrong, I think we want journalists to witness as much as possible, " he said.
No matter how hard you strive to deliver great service, occasionally something will go wrong with a customer.
If she put all those resources into one egg, something might go wrong with it before it hatched.
We were terrified that something would go wrong during the transition that would bring our business to its knees.
"Obviously there's always some concern that something could go wrong, " said Chief Cathy Lanier of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Still, most lawyers advise against it because of the danger something will go wrong and the client will convict himself.
Such a strategy is relatively rare in white-collar criminal cases because of the danger something will go wrong during cross-examination by prosecutors.
They worry that replacing a simple shaft with a complex gearbox will increase maintenance costs and make it more likely that something will go wrong.
"I was waiting for something to happen, something to go wrong - that's what it has been like for three and a half years, " he said.
We are poor balancers of risk: Look at the rising number of Americans who resist taking vaccines because of astronomically remote chances that something might go wrong.
Do they have safety mechanisms if something should go wrong?
Sit among a group of opera buffs and you're likely to come away with the impression that they're waiting for something to go wrong, and that they might even be pleased if it did.
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And in the larger domain of America, corporation after corporation that sits on tens of billions of dollars and fears spending it, fears at the very granular level of letting managers spend on an airfare, and fears taking a chance on a new project or a new market because, well, something may go wrong.
Mr Blair could hardly sack him after such an exoneration without being seen to admit that something did indeed go wrong in Sierra Leone.
Your statement of work or contract for any business engagement should define the deliverable for each party, the payment terms, and what the contingency plan is if something were to go wrong.
Major problems may, as we are assured, be very unlikely, but if something does go badly wrong with GM crops we will be faced with a form of pollution that is self-perpetuating.
"Plans are always good until something happens and things go wrong, and then you learn, " Davis said.
But though investors may realise that something is bound to go wrong eventually, getting the timing right is a completely separate question.
While this practice is more often than not followed to simplify workflow rather than born of malice, it raises serious questions about the accountability of individual members of IT when something in fact does go wrong, e.g. poor decision-making that results in resource downtime.
With more than 260, 000 employees working for him around the world, something can and will inevitably go wrong, Mr. Buffett said.
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And we want to tell the doctors, you know what, instead of us reimbursing you every time you take a test so you end up going to a -- because of something wrong, you go to the doctor.
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"I don't think you can ever go too wrong calling something what it is, " Scott said.
The reason teachers were targeted is because in this school reform environment, teachers are the go-to target whenever something is declared wrong and in need of a solution.
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