My sentiments about airline travel pretty much match mmm's: I've taken one round trip in my life, from Newark NJ to Florida and back in 1983, and that put me off flying forever. There are myriad reasons for my refusal to board an airliner: the feeling of loss of control over one's destiny; the statistics, such as many have quoted, that indicate the riskiness of airline travel; the height from which an airliner can crash; the turbulence and the foul weather (including interminable delays for de-icing only to wait for the ice to form again); the rudeness of other passengers (with no way to escape from them); air quality in the cabin (of concern to me because of my medical problems); the inconvenience of pre-flight and post-flight processing; the dependence on outmoded and failing equipment and technology; the dependence on the alertness of overworked air traffic controllers; the lapses in maintenance and other procedures that allow needless accidents to happen; the lapses in security that allow hijackers and other dangerous people to board... and now the revelations, in the wake of 9/11, that show just how inadequate the security situation is, and just how reluctant the airlines are to make real improvements in security.

So I don't travel much. Since I don't particularly enjoy travelling by any means of transportation, I don' t miss it much!