"Jose" wrote in message
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You may call it ironic; I find commercial air travel very inconvenient
with all the post 911 nonsense we have to put up with.

As do I. But we seem to be in the minority.

The only reason I do it is that for intercontenental trips, driving takes
much longer, and is thus more inconvenient. However I've stopped flying
commercially on anything less than, oh, a thousand miles or so.

Nevertheless, the general population has shown no such reduction in their
air travel. Obviously, they don't find the hassles to be significant enough
to affect their travel decisions.

Your statement is that "People value their convenience much more than they
value anything else", and I disagree with it. They value their time much
more than convenience, and are willing to put up with incredible
inconvenience and humiliation in order to save time.

For most people, convenience and time are inseparable. The very thing that
makes airline travel convenient is the time savings. After all, *nothing*
else about airline travel is more convenient than taking your own car, and
that's always been true.

Saying someone values their time more than convenience is, to me anyway, a
nonsensical statement. You might as well say you'd rather fly a fixed-wing
aircraft than an airplane.

Pete