Originally Posted by Crashed&Burned
90% of all aircraft passengers are flying on a 'jolly', usually holidays. I can appreciate the operational difficulties of mixing small, low speed aircraft with large high speed ones, but let's lose the 'GA is just for fun' criticism. Virtually all flying falls under this heading. (And what's wrong with having fun anyway...?)
C&B. The difference being that the aircraft passengers going on 'jollies' are fickle customers of airlines with very critical shareholders. The last thing the airlines and also, probably, the authorities who are responsible for Air Transportation want is people like you and me flying around just having fun getting in the way of them meeting their targets. The Air Transport business is all about punctuality and efficiency, unfortunately we can get in the way of that.
Skyhawk.