A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.