On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:57:00 +1200, Mutley wrote:

I think that will depend on the price of aviation fuel and who goes
bankrupt. By 2010 it may just be too expensive to casually fly..

For whom?

The Aug 6 NYTimes had an article on "private flying":

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06jets.html

Nowadays, private air travel has become so mainstream, relatively, that
among the decorator’s numerous young and well-heeled clients is a
couple in their 30’s whose Cessna Citation X encountered instrument
problems in this mountain resort town not long ago, forcing the couple
and their sons to board an airborne cattle-car to Denver. There, the
clients’ children, 4 and 6 — never having experienced a commercial
airport — sat on the floor of the vast and bewildering concourse and
wailed. And who among us, truly, has not at some point experienced a
similar urge?

- Andrew