Posted on 07/01/2023 5:04:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I keep hoping this is satire.
Citizen, no questions are allowed. Keep quiet or you will be sent to the camps.
I am driving 2500 miles one way soon for a summer trip. Looking forward to burning all that gasoline.
“Am I the only one who thinks the world was a better place when airline travel was luxurious and expensive … and done infrequently?”
Probably not. I’m sure a few people would agree with you. But not many.
I could not stand being in a car that long. >6 hour drive, and I’ll fly 95% of the time. >10 hours, 100% of the time. Glad you are able to do so though!
Now we know why they’re saying there’s a supposed FAA problem (United).
All Part of Their Plan™
You will have nothing....and, travel by foot, or.....trains.
I keep hoping this is satire.
Same thing hubby keeps saying.
Unfortunately, I do not think it’s satire.
Lounge access, high loyalty status, Global Entry/TSA pre and biz/first class makes flying a lot easier. I generally think its a good thing for costs to be lower for consumers, including airfare, though. I don’t mind paying more at this point of my career/life to get a better experience, and I frequently do.
Knowing what fanatics the climate change people are, I guess it is possible. If we want to go to Europe, we’ll have to get there on an old-fashioned sailing ship. Kind of like Columbus in the opposite direction.
We’re just thankful that we were able to our European travel (including France), already...with our kids (who were high school/college age).
Such wonderful memories.
Wouldn’t want to go back, now.
And, fake “Climate” *change* is all part of their sinister plan, as well. It all ties in, together, to take away every last freedom folks now have :(
Exactly - it's only really bad for the Greyhound Bus class. :)
Pretty much.
For vacation, I will drive to any destination that has a road leading to it.
Work pays me an ungodly amount at this point of my career so fast is better for work, so usually flights, especially here in Charlotte where it’s all direct everywhere. Time is my most valuable thing right now until I retire, so I’d rather not spend 10-40 hours (each way) in a car when I have a safer and faster option that’s not much more for just my wife and I (if I had 3-4 kids different story). Once I retire in ~2026, I may drive more for vacations, domestic ones at least ;)
The up side would be less terrorists and freebie grubbers flying into the US.
Most of my business travel involves shorter domestic flights. After 9/11 it got to the point where it became FASTER to drive to many of those destinations, once you account for all the nonsense you go through at an airport. And the distance for which a drive is more efficient than a flight gets much greater for critical business trips where I would regularly fly a day early just to avoid catastrophic situations with delayed or canceled flights.
The absurdity of this was made clear a couple of years ago on a business trip where a half-dozen people in my group were flying to a Midwestern city from different points around the U.S. It was about a 10-hour drive from where I lived, so I made it a road trip.
One of the other guys lived two hours away from me in a neighboring state. At the end of our business-related work, I found out he was flying out of the Midwest airport a couple of hours after I was planning to head home. I offered to drop him off at the airport on the start of my 10-hour drive home. Not only did I get home more than two hours before him … but it turned out his trip home took so long because he had a connecting flight through the airport in the city where I lived.
This guy would have been better off paying me a couple of hundred dollars to drive him all the way home.
1984 is not just a book
I did some European travel while I was younger — from Israel to England. I’m really glad I did it then when I had the energy and before we had events like the Syrian migration, the pandemic lockdowns, and now the war in Ukraine which could well expand.
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