It's not a game and not for the faint of heart. Thanks for pointing that out. More specific to this job, last year, Safi Airlines had an entire crew murdered in the crew bus right in Kabul.

Earlier this month, gunmen shot and killed a Swedish journalist in broad daylight. In January, a bomb and gun attack by the Taliban on a restaurant in Kabul killed 21 people, most of them foreigners.

10 June 2013, a group of Taliban attacked at the Kabul airport and were killed by Afghan military.

18 September 2012, KABUL — Twelve people were killed near Kabul’s airport when a suicide car bomber rammed into a minivan carrying foreign air-charter workers, Afghan officials said. A Pakistan-based militant group said it carried out the attack to avenge a YouTube video that defames the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

On 24 November 2010 an EU ban barring all Afghan carriers from flying into Europe was put in place.