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Choosing Air Travel
By OnTopic | December 30, 2009
Air Travel-Pros and Cons
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 biggest drawback for traveling by air is the pollution. Airplanes emit greenhouse gases into our atmosphere which contributes to things like global warming. Global warming increases the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and people who want to avoid such a rise in temperature are alarmed by this effect. In order to overcome this problem many airlines nowadays make efforts to become more environmental friendly. This can include them retrofitting their airplanes with a device called a winglet which improves fuel efficiency. Airlines also spend millions of dollars upgrading their fleets to newer and more efficient aircraft.
Disadvantage: High Cost
People refrain from traveling by air because of the high cost of air travel. In many instances it is inexpensive to travel by car to certain destinations instead of going by air. One way of solving the high cost air travel problem is to take advantage of discount
airline travel. The main deciding factor for flying or driving is the type of deal you can get for airfare.
Disadvantage: Fear of Flying
Many people avoid flying for specific reasons. For anyone that has ever been on a flight that has experienced extreme turbulence or some type of other event it can be rather terrifying.
Advantage: Speed of Travel
The greatest advantage about air travel is that it is much faster to reach between places as compared to other means of travel; however these places have to be connected by air. The duration of travel by road between two different places in the United States may be a few days as compared to travel by flight which will take only a few hours. Since you are saving a number of days by flying you can enjoy longer vacations.
Advantage: Easy to Travel Long Distances
In case you have to travel to far off destinations you will find that it is difficult to travel by any other mode other than air travel. We can pretty much travel to any destination around the globe by air. Although many of these flying times are very long you will still find that the total time taken is much shorter than the time that would have been spent by using alternate modes of transportation.
Advantage: Safety
With regards to other forms of travel, air travel is considered to be one of the safest. Car accidents wherein people die happen in thousands every year. It is also not uncommon to read about train derailments as well. As regards to air travel related accidents you will find that the frequency of occurrences is relatively minimal. For many people this makes it an easy decision to choose air travel over any 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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