Air Travel (Public Transport part 2)

We all know how much of a hassle it is to get on an airplane now. Even the act of getting into the terminal, let alone the actual airplane can be a stressing experience. So the question is, is it worth it?

Well of course, since airplanes are basically the most viable long distance transportation out there. Ever since the air travel industry was born, people have been using it to travel in between cities and later countries, piggy-backing along as technology caught up to demands and then created the commercial system we see today.

Of course, how resource friendly are airplanes anyway?

By nature of the requirements of air travel, jet fuel costs quite a bit more than automative gasoline, as a quick check of jet fuel prices in College Station said the average was about 4 dollars a gallon. But think for a second how big airplanes are.



You are talking about tens of thousands of pounds of jet fuel on commercial sized airplanes, amounting to a few thousand gallons of fuel. Granted, the range and the usage of that fuel will be for much, much greater distances than a car or truck, but the sheer magnitude of the fuel that one plane carries is staggering.

Now it makes much more sense why prices just keep on climbing.