My parents only flew once that I knew of in the 70's and that's it. My dad in particular was very interested in other countries, facts, trivia and learning new things but never wanted to go anywhere. About 10 years before he died he met a lovely American lady during her holiday to Australia and they became friends. She was forever inviting him to go and see here but he just didn't want to travel. My ex husband even said he'd travel with my dad in case he was worried he wouldn't know what to do or where to go. But no.. he wouldn't go! He never regretted his non travel status!