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Jay Honeck writes:
Agree. (This is the same problem, BTW, that is addressed by private aircraft. It's the reason we can easily beat the airlines to Florida from Iowa, even though I'm only flying at 160 mph.) If commercial flights were as easy as flights in a private plane (and they once were, although they aren't now), I'd still be finding excuses to fly from place to place, as flying itself is fun. But flying is only the tip of the iceberg nowadays, and the rest of the overhead completely erases the fun of flight on a commercial airliner. When I was a boy, people in Iowa City routinely flew United and Ozark Air Lines to anywhere in the country. This was possible because the US Air Mail paid the airlines to fly mail to hundreds of smaller airports, like Iowa City -- and the passengers were literally just gravy. (They broke even whether they carried passengers or not.) Some commercial airline flights are the same way, depending on the route. |
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Mxsmanic wrote in
: Jay Honeck writes: Agree. (This is the same problem, BTW, that is addressed by private aircraft. It's the reason we can easily beat the airlines to Florida from Iowa, even though I'm only flying at 160 mph.) If commercial flights were as easy as flights in a private plane (and they once were, although they aren't now), I'd still be finding excuses to fly from place to place, as flying itself is fun. But flying is only the tip of the iceberg nowadays, and the rest of the overhead completely erases the fun of flight on a commercial airliner. When I was a boy, people in Iowa City routinely flew United and Ozark Air Lines to anywhere in the country. This was possible because the US Air Mail paid the airlines to fly mail to hundreds of smaller airports, like Iowa City -- and the passengers were literally just gravy. (They broke even whether they carried passengers or not.) Some commercial airline flights are the same way, depending on the route. How wouls you know, you don't fly lightplanes or airliners, fjukktard bertie |
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