Air Travel-Pros and Cons

As the decades have passed air travel has continually grown in popularity.  This increase in popularity has been due to the convenience and safety one could enjoy by traveling by air.  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. Emission of greenhouse gases by the airplanes into our atmosphere results in 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. One of the ways in which you could do this is by retrofitting winglet on the aircraft that makes the aircraft fuel efficient. Apart from this the airlines invest a large sum of money to replace their old aircraft by fuel efficient aircraft.

Disadvantage: High Cost

Another con that keeps people from traveling by air is cost.  In many instances it is inexpensive to travel by car to certain destinations instead of going by air. By flying on discount
airline it is possible to overcome this disadvantage of high cost. You can decide to fly in case you get a very good deal on your airfare.

Disadvantage: Fear of Flying

Many people avoid flying for specific reasons. In case anybody flew in a flight which experienced extreme turbulence or some type of other event they feel terrified and hence do not prefer to fly.

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.  Driving in United States between places could take you a number of days whereas you could cover this distance in a few hours by flight. This helps us to enjoy longer vacations because we have to spend less time traveling.

Advantage: Easy to Travel Long Distances

Air travel also allows us to travel to faraway places that would otherwise be too difficult to travel to.  Air travel to practically any destination in the world is possible. 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

It has been found in general that air travel is the safest form of travel as compared to other travel modes. We normally hear more about car accidents taking place as compared to air accidents. Similarly, there is no dearth of train accidents. This is not to say that air accidents do not take place; however frequency of such accidents is very small.  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.