Recently, Jay Honeck posted:

Kinda misses the point of the experience, though.

You mean the jerking, bumping, swaying and noise?

Hee hee! Agreed.

If that's how you really feel, why you would fly on anything smaller than
a 747 puzzles me.

Personally, I think trains are cool (one of my fondest memories is of
taking the Santa Fe Super Chief from Chicago to LA as a child), but
I'll fly any time over them. Too slow and clunky to make them viable
cross-country transportation.

For those with the resources to fly, travel by train *is the point of the
trip*, not "getting somewhere" fast. The Santa Fe Super Chief is still a
great experience (we took that one about 5 years ago). You get to see the
country from a historical perspective, since the railroad tracks seldom
pass through the suburbs. More importantly, one gets the chance to meet
and chat with people that you wouldn't normally encounter. There is no
comparison between those folks and the obnoxious jerks that think their
airline ticket entitles them to make everyone else's experience miserable.

In a similar vein, when I choose to fly spam-cans I'm not in a hurry to
get somewhere. To the contrary... I want to *prolong* the experience. So,
I fly Warriors, Archers, 172s, etc. I'm not interested in "faster" planes
that guzzle twice as much fuel to get me somewhere 30 minutes sooner.
YMMV.

Neil