True but millions still fly and rent cars at their destinations, its a question of distance vs convenience. Here in the US if I have a trip of about one day driving time I’ll drive that over flying because the time spent waiting at the airport, getting worked like a muppet by TSA and then risking delays in takeoff time can make what should be a short flight into a day long affair. But overnight trip or cross country trips driving can get very very time consuming and tiring.
Example:
My wife went to a seminar in Berkeley, she was going with a group and that group was flying up courtesy of the sponsor. At the last minute I had the time to go also so we figured I would drive up so we had a car. I dropped her off at the airport then headed north, straight up Hwy 5, by the time she got thru check in, boarding, and the flight, baggage, then getting a cab across the bay to Berkeley and checking into the hotel, I was only a little over an hour away! And this is considered a “short” flight.
But I have another story:
We were traveling in France as part of a group tour, on the way to Lyon we found out that in the past a group of tourists instead of staying with the bus took the TGV to Paris, our next stop, so when we arrived we went to the station and bought tickets for the morning train, we left our luggage with the tour when the bus left at 8am, the train left at 9am, we were in Paris by 11am - 3 full hours before the bus arrived by hwy, so the convienience of the speed of the train over the given distance really sold us on the HST concept.
Now add in $4 a gallon gasoline, yep we got it already, and the driving part can now become much more expensive proposition depending on what your chosen vehicle is…Someone driving a 40mpg high milage car will be more prone to the drive option vs some dufus still driving a 9mpg Hummer H2.