Doesn’t need a plane a lot more human and nonhuman resources to transport a person than a train or bus?
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Flying is *not* cheap compared to other modes of public transportation. It’s often ten times as expensive as a bus ride of the same distance. Compare a plane ticket from LA to San Francisco with a bus ticket for the same trip. I just googled a flight for this Friday, the cheapest I could find was almost $300. I googled a bus trip for the same thing, I found one for $19.99.
You are correct that flying needs a lot more resources than a bus, that’s why it is in fact much more expensive. It’s a whole lot *faster* though, which means if you’re considering the price *per hour* of travel as opposed to *per mile*, flying can be cheaper. A direct flight from the west coast of the US to the east coast takes only 5 hours in a plane, and it would take several days in a train or bus, even a theoretical non-stop trip, and no train or bus goes that far non-stop, they would make several stops including overnight to sleep. A trip that long might take up to a week.
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