‘What Will Happen When America Can’t Afford to Fly?’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.01.08 | 5:41 PM ET
Here’s a sobering look at a possible future for air travel in the U.S. The money quote:
Maybe the gloomy futurists have a point after all, and mass aviation could be coming to an end. No longer would air travel be like the Internet or television—a cheap technology available to virtually anyone, shaping our world in countless little ways. If that happened, the result would mean more than just the end of easy weekend jaunts to Bermuda or annual Christmas visits home. It could mean major shifts in the economy, changes in immigration patterns across the world, and perhaps even a remapping of the planet as we know it.
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