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I do not believe any major commerical passenger airline is more risky than the other. There is a risk to all flight travel, and in the end, it is humans who design, build, test and fly the aircraft and its components. And as a passenger you accept that small risk when you board.
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I wasnt going to buy into this conversation as it appears to have been pretty well done to death. Having worked in the Aviation Environment for 30 years as a Flight Service Officer, (similar to ATC), I know of one airline I would never fly with end of story, they are downright dangerous, they operate out of Indonesia, so you can probably guess. I distinctly remember a jet arriving from Indonesia into Darwin with hydraulic issues. At that time, it was TAA that were doing the servicing for that particular airline in Aust, and they had to replace a fairly minor hydraulic line somewhere in the aircraft. They did not have exactly the same part required and used what I was told by a LAME to be a very high quality piece of replacement hose, but not as recommended by the aircraft manufacturer concerned. It was meant to get the aircraft back to Indonesia where the part could be replaced properly. Apparently that aircraft came back into Darwin some weeks later with the same part still attached. This was something I got 2nd hand from a friend who worked with TAA at the time, so there may be a degree of license involved. However having said that, I had numerous experiences when communicating with that airline where they broke ATC rules drastically and in one instance departed Jakarta for Sydney and climbed to FL390 without a single airways clearance, at the same time that numerous other long haul jets were on the same route inbound to Australia. The fact that they were not in Australian airspace was probably a contributing factor, but they were approaching the boundary and we as Flight Service used to use HF radio to communicate with aircraft on international routes once they were out of VHF range, and as such we could hear all the chatter going on in neighboring airspace. IMHO, Indonesia is one very dodgy place to be flying, or it used to be, things may well have changed, and they would have needed to.
I know this is somewhat off topic but seeing it was mentioned that all airlines are basically the same is IMO quite wrong.