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Choosing Air Travel
By OnTopic | December 8, 2009
Advantages and Disadvantages of Air Travel
As the decades have passed air travel has continually grown in popularity. One can attribute a number of reasons for this increase in popularity and these are 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 emit greenhouse gases into our atmosphere which contributes to things like global warming. For those people that try to limit their impact on the planet this could be a serious drawback. In order to overcome this problem many airlines nowadays make efforts to become more environmental friendly. Many airlines take action for retrofitting winglet that is usually intended to improve the efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft thereby reducing greenhouse gas emission. Airlines also spend millions of dollars upgrading their fleets to newer and more efficient aircraft.
Disadvantage: High Cost
Another con that keeps people from traveling by air is cost. You may be able to travel by car to many destinations at a very cheap price as compared to traveling by flight. You can take advantage of discount
airline travel to obviate the high cost of travel by air. The main deciding factor for flying or driving is the type of deal you can get for airfare.
Disadvantage: Fear of Flying
There are a number of people who just don’t want to fly. This is mainly because of the fact that they were on a flight that has experienced extreme turbulence or some type of other event and this has been 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
Another major advantage in traveling by air is that you can travel to far off destinations which are difficult to traverse either by road or any other means. We can pretty much travel to any destination around the globe by air. Flying to far off destinations takes longer duration; however they are still shorter than the time taken if you had to rely on alternative modes of transportation.
Advantage: Safety
One of safest mode of travels out of all the forms of travel available is air travel. Each year thousands of deadly car crashes happen. Even train derailments causing deaths are also being heard of very frequently. As compared to other modes of transportation you will find that accidents in air are negligible. Many people decide to travel by air since they feel that it is safer to fly than going by other means of transport.
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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