Who else has given up air travel for pleasure?

[Saint Peter]

What a bunch of pussies!

Get a ticket. Go thru security. Get on the plane.

 

[silver gurl]

It depends where I am going. If the flight is an hour or less, sometimes it is easier and just as fast, to drive.
But if I am going long distance, I will fly.
I like flying, I just hate the airport BS.

 

[jaF0]

^^ Gotcha' beat. My last flight was in '98. And I do mean my LAST flight.

Short of a medical flight where I'm unconscious and unable to decide, I'll never fly again.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Don't get the appeal of flying (big airlines). Can't see all that much unless daytime and clear with window seat. Trains I like. You get to see the country nicely. Car rides put me to sleep. Hazardous when I'm driving. Busses a bit of an experience.

 

[jaF0]

I flew between Detroit and Chicago a few times.

I figured that actual time from door to door wasn't all that different between driving and flying.

Drive door to airport (traffic, etc.), park, shuttle, check-in, wait, board, fly, opposite of above, etc. took not a whole not less time than the straight drive along I-94 (assuming no road problems). I wasn't even a lot more tired from the drive than the airport hassles.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Fata Morgana]

Flying is the only mode of transport I don't want to throw up on.

 

[Adre]

Flying is the only mode of transport I don't want to throw up on.

I'd hate to be your fucking horse.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I'd hate to be your fucking horse.

Carrot Mane.

 

[Liar]

You don't drive to and park at the airport. If you do you can't get sloshed on the return flight.

 

[Liar]

That said, I try to avoid short-ish flights.

I'll be heading to the US next week. New York for a couple of days and then Washington for a couple more, then NY and then back home. I looked up domestic flights, until I realized it was cheaper, comfier and even faster to rent a car for four days from the Hertz a block from my hotel.

Plus, all flights that weren't insanely pricey were United.

 

[oggbashan]

Don't have much choice when you live on an island in the South Pacific.

I'd like to take my daughter to Coachella in 2 or 3 years.

I went from the UK to Australia by liner, and back by liner two years later.

It took a month each way.

 

[Jamiegeo]

The longer distance trains and boats here cost waaaaay more than a plane trip.
Lil Miss Cathay Pacific can sook ma dook!.

 

[Hard_Rom]

I went from the UK to Australia by liner, and back by liner two years later.

It took a month each way.

Australia was on the list for laces to emigrate too. Would have been one hell of a month trip! Probably another reason why my mum thought Oz too far to go.