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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It’s a matter of scale. If you can get 200ish people together, even an expensive mode of transport becomes affordable. Take a trip from like San Diego to San Francisco. Taking your own car would be like $150 in gas. That’s the cost. The cost of taking a bus with 50 people on it is going to cost less than $50/per person, though they charge you more in order to make a profit. An airplane might have 200 people. So even if it costs 4x as much per mile than the bus does, it breaks even.
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