First they come for the pilots and healthcare workers, next they will come for you.
If we do not take a stand starting today we all will soon be mandated.
They are piecemealing this vaccine push, one industry at a time.
If we all boycotted the airline industry today, it would send a message to the rest of the industries for tomorrow. We are not going to take it.
This will be the most important boycott of our lifetime.
Already there. You couldn't pay me to get on a plane. I'd rather drive anyway. I took my family on a trip to Nashville from the Greater Cleveland area of Ohio not long ago, and we had a great road trip. We stopped at a great zoo in Kentucky on our way back. And, we ate at an amazing Mexican restaurant just as we arrived back in Ohio - little place off the beaten path, with food that was so authentic and good, we're still talking about it. You miss out on a lot when you take a plane. Driving affords you a whole lot more experience in my opinion. Plus, for the price of 1 ticket, 4 of us could go even with today's gas prices. And you'd have to rent a car if you flew anyway, so might as well just take your own.
I agree - not flying has provided a lot of excellent fringe benefits like the ones you mentioned for me as well... and in some cases it is also less expensive (it does take longer of course, but I plan ahead so that is not an issue).
Honestly, I LOVE planning road trips. I study maps online like crazy, it's so much fun. I don't plan out a whole trip, I like to leave time for discovering things on our own when we go, but it's nice to have a good outline of things to do and how much time it takes. You can't plan for everything; for instance, when we got to Nashville recently, it was really hard to find the Hard Rock Cafe. No directions could get us there. I finally just pulled up a map of the area, figured out where we were, and winged it that way.