• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If I find out my mother is dying and I want to make it there before she dies, I’d rather take a two-hour flight than a seven-hour drive.

    So no, not always.

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      1 year ago

      So, just take the flight in the rare case that it’s an emergency, and otherwise check if there’s a better option

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        1 year ago

        We cannot have airlines that exist purely for emergencies unless they are so cost-prohibitive that they are only usable by the rich. In order to have airplanes criss-crossing the world for that purpose, they have to work on a regular basis.

        That is not a tenable way to do things.