Overall, I hate the attitude that flying is essential and glamorous and "our right gosh darnit". We set up our lives as though flying is a trivial process, we shrug off the pollution costs and our governments throw massive subsidies at immense airports and airlines as though they are essential (which they are, only to the extent that we've planned everything around them). When we take flying for granted, we leave out all the people who can't easily fly. Boosters present flying as a way to connect the world - as though the people traveling all the time act as representatives of local interests, but in fact the people who fly have turned into a class of their own without connection to their local communities. #flyingless