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I'll be honest, I avoid flying as much as possible. 9/11 is part of the reason; it made flying the most miserable experience. A what should be a 1 hour flight is a 4 hour ordeal.
Now hear me out on this, flying in Japan is simple and easy and pretty much hassle free, so it's just flying in the US.
Flying in the US used to be fun. Now it's Papers Please.
If the place is close enough, you may as well drive there. There is every possible hassle you can imagine. Sit in a shit aluminum can; you're thankful if you get a cup of water and a tiny snack bag (last time I didn't even get that); you're subjected to getting a free massage prior to entering after a complementary radiation exposure and a free maybe a reach around, you can't bring your own drinks, so go ahead and buy the $7 bottle of water, luggage is limited so we can put a skid in the storage bay to make money on shipping, your luggage may or may not arrive, and please be sure to arrive two hours earlier or more in peak seasons so we can let you know your flight is overbooked, so enjoy paying twice to four times for the same shit you can get outside the airport. I hope you like your luggage rummaged through, we do it just for fun now even though there's xray scanners. Do you enjoy having the most uncomfortable seat possible? Of course you do, now shut the fuck up. There's more to this rant, but I figure that paint's the picture.
So it's the after affects of 9/11; flying in the US is terrible. I hate it. Don't get me started when Southwest canceled my flight 6 times and I ended up just driving home with a rental. What a waste of a week.
Just as bad here in Australia. I hate flying and just don't do it. Even if the drive is 3 days.
The worst part is, all these measures are laughably ineffective at preventing anything when it was actually tested, with a 95% fail rate. Security theatre.
Wow I'm surprised to hear that.
The totalnl number of TSA prevented terrorism since 9/11 is zero, AFAIK.