Now with cheap airfares, it's like riding the subway.
If your destination can be reached by car in 12 hours or less, you should just drive.
The people that used to take the bus now fly!
I guess we need secured ocean ships for transatlantic passengers... locked cabins with bed, shower and toilet... food trays delivered through a slot.
An advantage of this is extremely unruly passengers can be thrown overboard while the civilized ones continue their voyage at flank speed without interruption. There would be no need to summon any third-party police. There would no repeat offenders who break free of their restraints.
In the long term, Detroit might see some improvement, also.
We do that any way to avoid the hassle of going through security check and such. A 1.5 hour flight might take up a total of 4 hours any way from:
1) The drive from home to the airport, plus
2) getting there early enough to go through security, plus
3) flying time, plus
4) at the end of the flight waiting to get off the plane and pick up luggage, plus
5) cab or uber ride to destination.
So if my wife and I can drive from home to the destination in 12 hours, and if flying would take 4 hours of our time, is it worth all the expense (for both of us) and hassle of flying to save us 8 hours?
Now with cheap airfares, it's like riding the subway.
That's right; and even those sitting in first class can only get so far from any problems that occur in coach. (A divert is a divert for everyone.)
“Once upon a time (decades ago) air travel was very expensive and these kinds of things never happened. Now with cheap airfares, it’s like riding the subway.”
Obviously cheap fares are a 2-sided coin. In the case of cheap travel, particularly by air, we’ll soon be going back to the old days when only the rich traveled, as the Democrats and Globalists (Ukraine War supporters) are making sure of that, at least for Western countries.