As a retired engineer, with about 40 years of my so-called career in aircraft design, I DO NOT FLY when there is any way to avoid it.

There are a very few specific airplane models that I consider unsafe, and would not enter; but then I'm a bit fussy about some things.

The major reason I won't fly is that service and concern for the passengers is so abominable that it's just an unpleasant, and for me a physically harmful, experience.

For some purposes, it is pretty much unavoidable. I was forced to fly some years ago to get from Portland OR to Nagoya. I requested a road, but they refused to build it for me.

As long as there's dirt between two points, I'll drive - or walk.

John