This year, 2021, is a bit up in the air (perhaps literally…) for all of us. Will we be able to travel internationally? Will we be able to travel domestically? Will we even be able to travel by RV? There are a lot of unknowns, but we’re sure you, just like us, are sitting at home twiddling your thumbs wondering when the heck you can plan and book a trip!
Do you have plans this year to travel by airplane? If so, do you already have flights booked, or are you waiting to book them? Are you not sure? Or is there just no way you’re getting on an airplane any time soon?
Please tell us in the poll below. Leave a comment too, if you wish. Thanks!
Unless an emergency comes up, I plan on driving, or taking the RV. We have it, why not use it?
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I haven’t flown in years, 2009 to PA to my brother’s wedding. Otherwise it’s driving to and from. Serving 20 years USAF I did plenty of flying. Plus it’s great to see new things and places. So only an emergency will warrant a flight.
RV for me.
Not unless they are bringing my body home.
We solved that problem, we’ll have matchbooks stuck between our toes and set on fire, then FedEx will bring the ashes back, unless they lose them like they did my wife’s COVID test last March.
We haven’t flown in many years. I used to fly often on business trip. The wife has never liked flying, but before we got into RVing, she would reluctantly fly for vacation trips. Had to be less than 5 hour flights. Although we would still fly if needed, we haven’t had a need to for going on 8 years now. Who wants to fly when you can leisurely travel by motorhome and see the country at the same time?
Exactly!
We live in AK. Canada is closed. We left our truck and trailers in WA. Our only option is flying. Even the AK ferry system is not an option as they are blocked from traveling in Canadian waters.. Another road block for the RV’s. We have been vaccinated. Doesn’t make any difference “yet”. Hoping to drive back in May..
Haven’t traveled by plane since Sep 1985 when I flew to Chicago to move my family to AL. I don’t like any kind of crowd killer transportation.
Over many years of RVing, we have visited and stayed in all lower 48 states at least twice, much of Canada many times and Alaska once. When they build a bridge or fly us with our 40 foot DP free to Hawaii, we will go and fly again. Our last flying was an offer we could not turn down adventure in early 2002 after 911 when most people were afraid to fly. Stay safe, stay well, Safe travels.
We’re planning to take our one year delayed Hawaii trip in May. I’ve been vaccinated and we’re waiting for my wife to get scheduled. But most of our travel is with our 21′ trailer and our Ranger.
Are on the hook to attend a “destination” wedding originally scheduled for April. Happily it has been moved to 2022, so no need to fly anywhere this year.
I’ve flown a few times years ago but now prefer to drive everywhere I go. It’s great to have your home away from home with you.
No, but not because of COVID-19, we have only flown two round trips flights in the last 10 years. That’s why we purchased an RV. If the government would have built a freeway to Hawaii that would have saved one flight.
I said yes. Not flying commercial airlines. I’ll be flying my own plane. It makes travel so much easier that way. No mask required.
And to the survey editor, you had to know the the most popular answer to this survey.
I have all the flight hours I intend to have. Thirteen years of business flying Coast to coast , Hawaii and Europe. I never say never but I have no desire to ever fly again. Crowds, rude and entitled morons and of course Covid make flying unlikely.
I don’t want to fly, ever again, but when your 91 year old mother lives in the UK there isn’t much choice. Waiting for vaccination first though.
Haven’t flown since ‘checkpoints’ installed. If I want to go to NY or CA I take a leisurely drive.
After several years of flying for work (10-12 times/year for 10+ years, I decided to never fly commercial again. Since Montana wants an extra $50 to upgrade to a “Real ID” drivers license, now I can’t fly.
My Montana DL doesn’t expire for a couple of years, but I’m looking forward to picking up the RealID version. Fifty bucks is an infinitesimally small fraction of what I spend on *driving* every year, never mind how it compares to the cost of regular flying.
I have not traveled by plane since 2005, and that was only because it was to my Aunt’s memorial service. Not on my agenda at all now.
If I need to, I will fly. I have no problem with it.
No plans to fly as of now, but who knows. After we get our second shots, and things settle down, we might. Would really like to see the Whales in Mexico again, but …..
Our travels are now on Amtrak, our RV or car. We don’t need to be treated like cattle and packed into a tube like sardines in a can! Amtrak is at least civilized and a comfortable means of travel – if they could just figure out how to get from A to B ON-TIME!. Wayne said it well below. Flying lst class is an option – but a mighty expensive one just to buy back what the airlines destroyed – the bigger the jets the worse it gets! (By the way I have a commercial pilot certificate with an instrument rating – so not anti-aviation).
I used to love to fly, pre-9/11. That ruined it all. Now the TSA has made it insufferable. And until the airlines do something about the seating (I’m a pretty big guy 6’1″ and 225) I refuse to pay them good money for hours of claustrophobic distress!
I could not agree more. I’m a pretty little guy at 5’5″ and 130 lbs and still feel the airlines have a goal of making flying as miserable as they possibly can.
Only if one of my sibs needs me quick.
Not just NO but HELL NO! With all the virtues of RV travel, why would any RVer subject themselves to the indignities and insults of today’s airlines?
We have a family wedding that keeps getting pushed back. For now we are back to the original date, a year later. If it does not get postponed again, we will be on a plane in 2021. Personally, we don’t like to fly. One of us has bad motion sickness, the other has claustrophobia and noise sensitivities, so flying is never our first choice, but sometimes it just makes more sense to fly.
I am not surprised by the answers. For most of my adult life my jobs had me flying quite often. Since retirement I fly only when it makes sense, and that is about every other year. And when I do I upgrade to Business or First Class, because I think I am worth it. Why suffer when I don’t need to. As to my answer to the poll, for this year probably not. Next year probably as I am looking at a cruise.
Will fly CLE > Jamaica on AA. I see numerous reports on the efforts by airlines to clean the air and cabins with good results. Our concerns are TSA and baggage handling so will wear gloves too. Have Alcohol spray to sanitize the exterior of bags and the interior if it appears that TSA opened our bags. Jamaica infection rate 7% of USA and fatality rate 8% of US. They have required masks for months and our resort provides free 3-day test results. Have not heard of thousands demonstrating to not wear masks so feel we will be safer once there. Also wife & I will have our 2 shots before we fly. When working I flew a lot. Million + on AA and quarter Mil on CO. Can’t drive the MH to Jamaica. This will be trip 36.
We aren’t afraid to fly, if need arises, but we hate the hassle and cramped space. Traveling by RV is much more comfortable. For us, the only advantage to flying is saving time. Costs are about a wash.
Yes. To fly to Alaska to rent an RV for 3 weeks. Would I rather take my Arctic Fox trailer and drive? Yes. Unfortunately that is not an option.
For travel in the USA, I have the motorhome except for Hawaii and I went there 4 times in 2 years to see if I would like to move there. Nope, way too crowded and traffic is as bad as L.A. even on the outer islands much of the time.
Maybe to Japan or Taiwan in a couple of years but the airlines made flying so unfun now.
We are planning a trip to WDW, yup the state xxxxxx joe wants to wall off to the rest of the US and is illegal. But then again Florida can do what it did do during the civil war and I hope it does. Secede from the union. Texas is pondering it and can since it is in its constitution to rightfully do so. Scary to live in this country. So travel and be free.
We have a very comfortable RV, why would we fly?