Air Travel

I write this in the departure lounge of Frankfurt Airport (FRA) as I wait for my delayed departure to South Africa. – (Was meant to depart at 20:45 – now departing at 00:15 (Sunday morning))

Gone is time that air travel was for the selected few. When it was exciting just to get onto a plain to visit new destinations and go on exciting adventures. Now it just seems to be a mundane thing that people do. Security is now just a formality. Delays are just part of the norm. The only people you see excited about the prospects of getting on a plain to travel to far off places are young children. There parents are only worried about getting to there final destination with there children on the same plane as them. People bustling around, with a sense of purpose, but not really going any where. Just to the exit gate to find that there plain has been delayed do to unforeseen circumstances.

Maybe it’s the time of day, I don’t know. But I just seem to see tired people, stressed people.

Why is this?

Has low cost air lines made it as normal to fly to a new destination as driving to the shops? “Every one does is now.” So that if you have not been on a plane you’re the odd one out? It does seem that way I as sit here watching people running around with no where to go.