I really think that the pandemic has effectively killed flying for me.
For the last couple of decades, I’ve found air travel to be a bit of a hassle anyway.
It’s not at all what it once was. I loved back in the day when the heating and cooling was great on planes and we had some room to spread out. Now, I can’t get enough HVAC cooling on a plane and the seats feel like I’m being stuffed into a holding pen. It’s not comfortable at all. But as I travel a lot for work, it seemed that air travel would just be a necessary part of life. But the pandemic actually changed all of that. The company I work for sent us all home to work from the air conditioning safety of our own homes. This also lead to a more logical and regional set up for the client base that we were all responsible for. This allowed me to travel by car to our clients in my region during the pandemic. And even with the advent of HEPA filters on planes, I haven’t been eager to get back to flying. Instead, I find that the air conditioning of my car is just right when it comes to business travel. Now that my business trips are regional, driving doesn’t add much more time to my trips. Plus, I’m staying in the interstate hotels along the way. They are not only a more economical option but I’ve found that they have much more consistent heating and cooling.