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Airplanes- a modern day issue?

Ever since mankind was born, people dreamt of flying. This entire time people could never imagine being 10000km above the ground, sitting in a winged vehicle capable of flight, generally heavier than the air and Vehicles driven by jet engines and propellers with the speed of 800km/h.
If you lived back in this time what would you do if you did not have the chance to fly? How would you manage to travel to different countries in a short period of time? What if nobody ever invented the airplane? Would you take the car, bus or train instead?
Blessedly the Wright Brothers invented the first motorized airplane in 1903. From then on the whole airplane industry developed. Thousands of people are now employed in this industry and for us it is normal to embark in Europe and be at a show in San Francisco eight hours later. That's fantastic and I believe that none of you will ever let this technical advantage go!
If you are planning your holiday, you think about travel destinations like Bali, Australia, Madagascar and so on. You either go to a travel agency or on the Internet and search for the cheapest flight. There are at least 1000 different airlines from which you can choose. You have to have a knack for choosing the right one. Otherwise you will spend a whole weekend in a hotel close to the airport where nothing else is built, just because your flight was delayed. You get angry because you want to be in time in a certain area.
Did you ever imagine how much the airline has to pay for it? To check in 400 people in a normal standard hotel, with food and shuttle back to the airport. One quarter that you paid for your ticket is going there. Furthermore if the flight is delayed more than ten hours you can receive around $700 from the airline as remuneration.
In contrast did you ever consider the negative side of the airplane industry? Of course airplanes can carry a few hundred people at the same time and by doing this they can decrease the CO2 emission. But not just people are transported in modern daily life. Fruits, post, cars, animals are also transported by flight. It is faster to fly mangos from Brazil to Russia. The out packing ways are enormous, about millions of km at one day, and consequently they have a dramatically impact on the greenhouse effect. A solution is if you are going to a supermarket the next time just buy food from your own country. The next time you are embarking into an airplane think about all these issues that are going along with it!