Planners have tried to demonize the freedom people gain from auto ownership by calling them “auto dependent.” Now they are demonizing air travelers by calling them “binge flyers.”
As energy efficient as trains? So what? We’re still going to demonize it.
We know binge drinking consists of drinking so much for so long that the drinker gets sick. But just who supposedly flies so much that they make themselves sick?
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, people enviously called frequent flyers the Jet Set, referring to people who were so rich that they could fly to Acapulco, Cannes, or Capri on a moment’s notice. Today, thanks to airline deregulation, almost every American and European has flown at least once, and most fly regularly.
