Does Air Travel Make Sense?
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Air Travel-Pros and Cons
As the decades have passed air travel has continually grown in popularity. There are a wide variety of reasons that have contributed to the increase in popularity including convenience and safety. The following are some of the positive and negative factors involving air travel.
Disadvantage: Airplanes Cause Pollution.
The major shortcoming of air travel is the pollution caused by it. Airplanes are responsible for sending greenhouse gases into our atmosphere and these gases contribute for things like global warming. This is considered as a serious drawback by people who are keen to limit the effect of global warming on the universe. Many airlines are becoming friendlier to the environment to prevent the effect of global warming. One of the ways in which this is achieved by many of these airlines is to retrofit winglet devices that make the aircraft fuel efficient. In addition, most of the airlines have been modernizing their aircraft to more fuel efficient aircraft by spending a lot of money thereby reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.
Disadvantage: High Cost
High cost of travel makes many people avoid traveling by air. It is cheaper to fill up gas in your car and drive to your desired destination instead of going by flight. There are ways to get around this by taking advantage of discount
airline travel. You can decide to fly in case you get a very good deal on your airfare.
Disadvantage: Fear of Flying
There are a number of people who just don’t want to fly. If anyone has travelled in a flight which has hit an air pocket you will see that they have gone through a lot of rough weather due to turbulence and this can be rather terrifying.
Advantage: Speed of Travel
One of the major advantages in air travel is that it is able to take you to any of the places where airports are available at a much faster rate than any other forms of transportation. Flying between two destinations in United States which are connected by air takes a few hours whereas going by car between these destinations might take a number of days. This gives you extra days for enjoying your vacations because you save a number of days by traveling by air.
Advantage: Easy to Travel Long Distances
It is possible to cover long distances by flight in a reasonably short time whereas it is difficult to cover far off destinations by other modes of transportation. traveling to any destination in the world is possible if you travel by air. Some of these flights might prove to be quite long but they are still much shorter than if you had to rely on alternative means of transportation.
Advantage: Safety
When you consider various modes of travel, you will find that travel by air is the safest. Each year thousands of deadly car crashes happen. It is also not uncommon to read about train derailments as well. Air travel related disasters do happen but they occur much less frequently. For many people safety is the prime consideration for choosing air travel as compared to other form of transportation.
Choosing air travel is a personal decision, based on the factors discussed above along with a multitude factors not discussed here. For most travelers safety, speed of travel and cost are the over riding factors. As long as cost remains affordable air travel will continue to grow in popularity.
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