How you guys go by taking airplanes and ****? No shade of course but honestly it's expensive. Y'all must be rolling in the bread tbh.
I can only speak from experience that air travel here in Australia is cheap. A short 1 -2 hour flight to another capital can cost you as low as $60-70 return on off-peak times. And with all the Australian majors having sizable operations from my city air travel has become accessible for everyone to use.
Both of my parents work for one of our country's local airlines so I don't really have a choice as long as that airline has a trip to where I wanna go It's alright since I get free rides and stuff. But it's not like I get to travel a lot
My dad was one of the executives at YVR (Vancouver Interanational) and oversaw the whole 2010 Olympic extra crowds and stuff and he is doing it for the 2012 London Olympics also now. So we always get really cheap flights. Personally I like British Airways, Cathey, and Qatar is ****in amazing