The Golden Age of travel is over: All our lives, we've taken it for granted. But now with airports in chaos, £100 to fill up your car and trains on strike, social historian DOMINIC SANDBROOK says the future is bleak for getaway-lovers

UK Daily Mail ^ | June 20, 2022 | Dominic Sandbrook

[C19fan]

Just imagine a world in which, almost overnight, the transport system breaks down. Flights across the world are cancelled, leaving thousands of travellers stranded far from home.

Airports are crowded with mobs of angry, frightened people. Even greater throngs descend on the railway stations, desperate to squeeze on to the horribly overcrowded trains.

[C19fan]

As with many other aspects of life, opportunity to travel appears to be creeping back to the pre-industralized age where travel for pleasure was rare. Most humans throughtout history only went at most 25 miles outside their place of birth. This travel chaos is just a preview of the Davos crowd wants to impose on us peasants.

[Williams]

Until next month.

[TexasFreeper2009]

*yawn* just another sky is falling crap piece.

[JoJo354]

Another form of lockdowns. Period.

[toast]

If airports are packed to the rafters, how is the golden age of travel over?

[Born in 1950]

The future is bleak for ___

Lol, I suppose so. Fill in the blank and hold forth.

[Theoria]

More fud for Americans. We need more fud out there.

[TornadoAlley3]

Twilight Zone

[Fungi]

Don’t tell bam bam...

[ConservativeInPA]

Most humans throughtout history only went at most 25 miles outside their place of birth

Some people barely venture from their homes today. It seems for some this is a choice, others cowardice, and even others out of compliance with government mandates or recommendations.

[Born in 1950]

Persuasive!

[Allegra]

*yawn* just another sky is falling crap piece.

I always wonder if these people quiver in excitement while writing this gloomy crap. People who delight in demoralizing others are mentally imbalanced. They appear to have “abandoned all hope” and they serve no productive purpose.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The whole reason the globalist psychopaths think they are above us is because they fly around in their personal jets and look down on the ant-people below with contempt for polluting the Walden paradise they deserve.

If their personal jets started falling out of the sky on a daily basis they would rapidly lose their sense of superiority.

Be a shame if they started falling out of the sky.

[Cboldt]

Healthy peasants can do 20 miles a day easy, on foot, and 70 or more on a bicycle.

[wally_bert]

It would be a sad waste of perfectly good aircraft.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A small price to pay for freedom from globalist psychopaths.

[SamAdams76]

Ninety minutes from New York to Paris...What a glorious time to be free

[wally_bert]

Metal can be recycled at least and parts of any good.

I wouldn’t feel so bad about the loss of the planes then.

[DarrellZero]

Ridiculous. Democrats peeing down people’s legs and telling them it’s raining.

[Secret Agent Man]

Clamping down on your ability to move/leave by basically making it so expensive and/or shortages of fuel and repair parts.