Enormous increase in use of flights for leisure, business and personal purpose.

In last few years’ world has witnessed drastic enhancement in many areas in terms of technology & its reachability to large set of people. This also increases the affordability of various leisure items for bourgeois and upper middle class people, use of aircraft is one of them. According to an article in recent publication the usage of flights by commoner has been increased more than 60% in last 5 years. Due to this many companies are focusing towards aviation and related industries like tourism, hotel accommodation etc.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Flights

As world’s economy is expanding day by day and no single economy can survive without the dependency of other, introducing airplane & and enhancements in the area of making it affordable to everyone, acts like a real savior. Many companies are now able to expand their business verticals to different part of the world which would not be possible without domestic and international flights. It goes with the saying “Time is Money” and flights do enables us to save the time.

 Apart from its benefits to business men, flights are also beneficial for a separate group of people classified as proud bourgeois. As airlines comes up with various offers to board the flight, like benefits to frequent fliers and low cost airlines, people has started opting it for leisure and personal purposes too, that not only save their time but also enables them to interact more and learn various cultures. 

In spite of having various advantages of flights, there are few but lethal disadvantages. First and foremost, the operating cost of flights is too high, mainly due to the fuel used by airlines, without knowing the fact that and the pollutants discharge is very harmful for the atmosphere. Moreover, to operate these airlines a good infrastructure is mandatory which comes at the cost of damaging forests and destroying natural habitats. 

Taxes and Fees

Onto the different perspective, functioning of airlines are governed by airport authorities by imposing various taxes customer and operating agencies. Few years back these taxes are used to be exorbitant and was actually greater than the basic fare of the trip. According to me these taxes should be balanced and regulated by central government and should be based on the distance of the journey. It should be such that it maintains affordability and its value can be preserved too.