Do you enjoy flying?
 

Its a good question. Some Road Warriors loathe flying,some look at flying as changing from one taxi cab to another. So I ask,do you enjoy flying? Why do you fly?

Personally,I enjoy the whole experience. Be it on business or personal. Also,being an aviation enthusiast helps too.

I used to hate flying but then I had to do a whole bunch of intercontinentals for work...on avg. one every 5 days for over 4 months!

Now, I am addicted to flying...that is the BIGGER problem!

Dorian

William,

I personally love flying. I have always been extremely interested in aviation. Luckily my career path has afforded me many international trips. I have traveled to many different places in Asia. I enjoy meeting people everywhere. Learning about their different cultures is something everyone should be able to experience.

-RKG

Somtimes love it and sometimes hate it! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Liked it more several years ago (including the pre-deregulation era! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif)

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/confused.gif Perhaps "indifferent" is a good word! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Love it. And may be one of the few fliers who actually LIKES airline food, especially the finer fare on long flights. The meals are usually nutritionally well-balanced, prepared under sanitary conditions, wholesome, and require no effort on my part to prepare or clean up. Can you tell I'm a bachelor?

Overall love to fly. I do get rather impatient, however. Just my nature. Love takeoff. Best part of the flight, I think.

The longest flight I have ever taken was from MCO-LAX on a 757 bulkhead row, at 5h15m in flight. Didn't think I was gonna make it. Seemed so long.

Have not yet had the pleasure of flying internationally, and don't exactly look forward to it, because of the trip times to Europe, which will likely be where I land first outside North America.

Like the travel experience. Especially when I am able to visit an airport for the first time. Interesting to see the terminal layout, the overall look of the place.

Traveling to SEA for the holiday weekend. Haven't visited in nearly three years. Last time I was there, Sea-Tac needed some major attention. The main terminal was a dump in my opinion. Very 60s. Know they are doing some renovations, and hopefully will be able to see the progress and improvements made, or even boards throughout the terminal explaining to passengers what they can expect in the way of renovation and expansion would be great.

I love to fly! Like so many others here, if my schedule has a 3-4 week break with no flights, I start to twitch. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif I also enjoy playing the 'games' in regards to upgrades, seats and airline rules & regs.

I think it was PremEx who best described it a while back (too lazy to search for it). The sheer wonder of the plane taking off & flying at 5-6 miles up, across thousands of miles, is just amazing!

To be able to get on a plane in the morning on the West Coast & arrive on the East Coast in time for a meeting or an early dinner is still truly a wonder to me, after all the years I've been flying. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I don't mind flying - it is being confined in one place (ANY place) for more than a couple of hours.

Realistically, I'd put 4 hours as my limit. After that I'm that annoying fidgety guy who makes his seatmate nuts.

Thankfully I only fly domestically, and with IAH being CO's hub, BDL-IAH is my longest leg.

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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."

I took my first flight in the early '50s, when they were shooting at people in Korea, and I was headed in that direction, and I haven't yet come unhooked.
Try landing on Wake Island, where you can't see land on either side, even after you've come to a stop (until you get out of the plane - which they wouldn't let us do).
It's a fascinating experience, every time I take a flight.
I love it, even in coach on a DL 757.

I took my first flight in the early '50s, when they were shooting at people in Korea, and I was headed in that direction, and I haven't yet come unhooked.
Try landing on Wake Island, where you can't see land on either side, even after you've come to a stop (until you get out of the plane - which they wouldn't let us do).
It's a fascinating experience, every time I take a flight.
I love it, even in coach on a DL 757.

I love flying, and I love the miracle of flight. I love flying more than I love travel, and I know that I would not travel quite as much if it did not involve flying. I love flying in all its forms, from the tranquility and pureness of a hang glider to the complexity and power of a jet.

See you in the window seat... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I was an infant when I took my first flight; I suppose anything you've done your whole life is going to seem pretty natural.

Why do I fly? Part of it is simply because I can. And part of it is because I've become accustomed to a fast-paced lifestyle.

In all honestly, I believe the best way to experience the world is at ground level, and the most enjoyable form of ground transportation in my book is rail. Unfortunately, I usually don't have the luxury of taking that much time to get from one place to another. (Yes, I'm looking forward to one day riding Acela Express!) Also, price is a factor, and I don't perceive rail to be competitive with air travel, at least not in the U.S.

On the other hand, I love looking down at Planet Earth from seven miles up. It doesn't look like a map with political divisions. It just looks like home. I guess I like mountains the best--you really can't appreciate them as much looking up.

There are some limits on how much air travel I can stand; for one, I don't particularly care to fly more often than every other week. Breathing cabin air for more than about 10 hours at a time does tend to make me pretty cranky. Also, I may suffer jet lag on long eastbound trips. I don't know exactly what the threshold is, but I know better than to expect to be functional for a day or two after a SFO-LHR nonstop, for example.

I fancy myself a "nervous traveler," but that lasts only until I hear the magic words, "flight attendants: arm doors for departure." Then I can become totally relaxed. Yes, I can even sleep in those crappy, uncomfortable Economy seats. (On transcons, anyway; I don't dare fly Y internationally.) The anxiety mostly stems from worrying about what small item I forgot to pack, or whether I should have set my VCR to tape some stupid entertainment program (which I probably won't have time to watch, anyway).

My one regret is that I don't do ENOUGH flying!

I too am amazed that so many tons can leave the ground and bring me wherever I want to go. I'm a geographer by education, and have been fortunate to have had jobs where flying was in the job description. (I went along on sales calls to pull the salesperson's a** out of the fire when they would promise something that was impossible.) I now have a much more peaceful professional life, but alas do much less flying.

I always choose the window seat, and oftentimes bring my atlas with me so I can figure out where I am by viewing features on the ground (roads, shapes of bodies of water, etc). I like airplane food, and look forward to just about every flight. Of the 400 or so legs I've travelled, I've been miserable on fewer than 5 (and ALL the legs have been in steerage).

Only downside to air travel - waiting in lines.

[This message has been edited by Papollo (edited 05-23-2000).]

Oh yes, oh yes. My first flight was in the '60s when drafted.
I don't fly for my vocation but do go sometimes for my advocation and just go go go to see places. I always say the worst day of traveling is better than the best day of work. (i do not fish) I want the window seat because unless the movie is in the running for the worst movie of the year it is not worth seeing on an airplane. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif Although if they get those virtual helmets on the planes pretty soon may experiment with the entertainment, otherwise there is nothing better than the natural view. Also would be suprised there is anyone out there who's not amazed that a couple of hundred tons (fully loaded 47) can take off the ground and with a good pilot land like a feather, because this boy is even when they bounce it on the landing. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
Oh yes, oh yes. I could go on and on and would only repeat something everyone would say.

I love to fly. The longer the flight the better. In my case, getting "there" and back is more than half the fun...

My nephew is three. Everytime he sees a plane in the sky, he stops whatever he's doing, points up at the sky, and says "airplane" with a huge smile. I always hear him but rarely see him as I am always looking up as well.