Originally Posted by
dr dre
Maybe millennials are less interested in flying due to the fact it’s quite cost intensive. Younger generations see a future filled with higher debts, extreme housing and cost of living prices, more uncertainty, more unemployment and underemployment, less job security, longer working hours if you are lucky to have a job. I don’t blame them from shying away from investing tens of thousands of dollars to earn and maintain a private licence they will probably use infrequently.
The cost of gaining a PPL and using it, even only infrequently, over several years would be like saving up a deposit for a home loan, and that’s something that a lot of millennials see as unacheivable, so you can see how far down the list of priorities flying for leisure would be.
Flying aircraft that are technologically unadvanced and spending their recreational time socialising in a community that’s generally far older than them, it’s just not an appealing argument to make to a youngster. For the same reason fewer younger people are buying cars, it’s cost intensive and there are cheaper alternatives about.
Actually that's a fair assumption of how the youth of today are trending. Another generation or three & the youngsters of tomorrow won't be coming from a family where someone flew. I have numerous nieces & nephews and they have many friends none of them as far as I know show any interest in flying.
I also have 3 offspring, all well & truly grown up none of them where the slightest bit interested in flying (thank Christ!). Us old codgers will just fade away:-(