What percentage of the American public uses the airlines for transportation regularly?

[Lint Head]

I do occasionally. I know very few people around me who do. Most people drive to there vacations or jobs. I cannot find valid percentages on the internet as to how many people actually fly regularly. Do the airlines want the average American to think almost everybody flies? I doubt that a person who works in a fast food restaurant to support a family flies everywhere. The major mode of transportation for the wealthy is fixed but correcting the human condition of people who really need it is low priority for our current system of the corporately owned government.

Most Americans have cell phones but there is a vast amount of the population who do not have internet access or even a computer.
Misconceptions seem to be the rule when it comes to deciding equitably in society.

[grasswire]

1. don'tcha know?

Everyone buys new cars, Pottery Barn furniture, family vacations, good liquor, and fashion clothes!

[Initech]

2. My firm has jobs all over the country.

I must book about 15 - 20 flights a month.

[DanTex]

4. That's a lot of flights. You might think of applying for a job at Penetrode instead.

[Initech]

14. Yeah I'll have to ask you to come in on Saturday. Sunday too.

That'd be greeeeeeeeeeeat.

[markiv]

3. air traffic controllers are a miniscule fraction of the airport system cost

and it's asinine to slow down the system over that one input, the losses to other governemnt assets in the system must be 100 to one at least (vs the money saved)

NOBODY else, when cutting budgets, would cut one critical input of a massive costly infrastructure

that said, and completely true, there is also the factor that the most influenctial and wealthiest people, as well as congress members themselves, are inconvinienced by this

it's not one or the other, all of the above is true

[geek tragedy]

5. 85% fly 0-2 times per year.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90360&page=1

More than 85 percent of the public flies infrequently if at all: More than seven in 10 can be described as infrequent fliers, flying once or twice a year or less; and 14 percent have never flown. Another 14 percent fly at least once every few months.

[ananda]

7. That's me..

.. a very infrequent flyer.

I am doing some flying in June, though, to visit family on the west coast.

I hate to say this, but I'm so glad Congress fixed the controller problem.

Still, I think the whole sequester stinks and all funding for the poor
should be restored.

[geek tragedy]

10. We fly 3-5 times a year.

Half of that is vacations.

So, not a need like the less fortunate. We're lucky.

At the same time, are we relieved that our planned family and personal travels won't get messed up? You bet.

[liberal N proud]

11. I make at minimum 4 round trips each year

Sometimes international trips as well.

[Lint Head]

12. Thanks for this info!!

[NightWatcher]

6. Congress has got to get home in time to cash their checks

They can't bare to sit on the runway waiting.

The problems of the rich(er) will be fixed, while the poor choke on Austerity and the Middle disappears.

[HereSince1628]

8. I suppose that the SOs Amazon book buys come at least part way by air

The ways in which the FAA impacts our lives may be more than tourist class travel.

They also keep those infernally loud machines from falling out of the sky onto residential neighborhoods. I'm guessing about 33% of Americans live underneath well used commercial airways.

[hunter]

9. I can count the times I've flown on my fingers.

It's less than twice a decade.

True, I don't like to fly, but most of the time it's because I haven't got any money.

[librechik]

13. heh--the "1%"

of course--that's why the fix happened so fast. In Congress, they are all part of the 1%.