Given the huge carbon footprint of flying, I'd like to see a return to the days when flying was viewed as a luxury and the whole plane was like what is now business class. None of this "making flying accessible to the unwashed masses" business.
Of coures the sad realty is that then many airlines would no longer be commercially viable and would either have to raise airfares astronomically, which those who travel regularly for business instead of pleasure would howl about, or the airline would collapse in a heap.
I'm actually not averse to there being a bit of a collapse in the airline industry. Once upon a time, the family holiday involved camping somewhere for a week or so within a 3-4hr drive of home. Now the masses think it is their god-given right to be able to take the family to Fiji for the same cost.
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Date: 2010-01-22 06:00 am (UTC)Of coures the sad realty is that then many airlines would no longer be commercially viable and would either have to raise airfares astronomically, which those who travel regularly for business instead of pleasure would howl about, or the airline would collapse in a heap.
I'm actually not averse to there being a bit of a collapse in the airline industry. Once upon a time, the family holiday involved camping somewhere for a week or so within a 3-4hr drive of home. Now the masses think it is their god-given right to be able to take the family to Fiji for the same cost.