@@GabrielTravelerVideos exactly! 'looking before you leap' & a little bit of due research before we make our decision, is an excellent way to manage ANY 'trouble' situation; taking responsibility before we decide.
I was on the BKK to Seoul route with Jeju approximately one month ago. You never know when your day will come but keep living life as it it's your last!
But there's a good chance you'll survive a car crash - I've been in 3. Nobody can say they've survived that many plane crashes. Also, people feel like they have more control when driving. The statistics on driving are bad I would imagine, but people have the choices to consider when to driving - time of day, traffic, place, road conditions, etc. When you're in a plane, you just have to sit back and hope for the best fingers crossed - yikes.
@@brendangannon9286Gannon, you've been hitting the grog today or what. The point is that plane crashes are rare, but deadly car crashes are not. The chance of surviving each type of crash is not the point. Have a pint 🍺 on me laddy.
@LadyMul effectively every person in the worlds goes on the road in cars, lorries, bus passengers, etc etc. It's essentially 100% of the worlds population vs. the small percentage that flies on planes every year. When you introduce these relevant statistics, flying starts looking a lot less safe by the numbers. And then if you go airline by airline it starts getting scary
Your comment about the car ride to the airport being more risky than the flight resonated with me. One year I flew to Thailand and Cambodia for Christmas, and the scariest thing that happened on the entire trip was the drive to the YVR. The roads were incredibly icy, and some drivers seemed unaware that the conditions called for reduced speeds and no sudden moves. Ten minutes from the airport a car made an illegal and unsafe crossing of an intersection right in front of me and I had to avoid it without skidding into anything else, and it left me so shaken that when I got to the airport I had to take a few minutes in the parking lot to regain my composure.
I worked for a international airline for many years. The public has no idea of the dangerous near misses, mechanical malfunction or pilot error or illness (stroke/heart attack in the cockpit). You will never hear about it!
That's comforting to know!🤣 I was on a plane not long ago that was delayed by a day due to mechanical repairs, then it was delayed for over an hour after we boarded for a 'technical' problem. When the plane finally took off, water was squirting from several areas along the wing during the entire ascent, as if some fire-extinguishing response accidentally went off. I've been on several dozens of flights and was alarmed as I've never seen that before but no one else on the plane noticed. Ignorance is bliss. Thankfully nothing else malfunctioned 😅
I am going to Vietnam in February and I I am flying with Jeju airlines, the airline that had the crash in Korea a few days ago. That will not stop me from going. This was their first ever crash and they are a relatively safe airline. There is a risk in everything we do. I cannot stop living my travel dream because of that.Happy new year Gabriel 🎉😊
Happy New Year Gabriel! So Happy to see you wanting to spend it out here in Mexico celebrating and bringing in the New Year with us! You have been a huge inspiration to so many of us for over a decade! I remember you watching you over 7 years ago before ever even thinking about moving to Mexico. You are the GOAT of Travel UA-cam! Hit me up if you are ever in the Merida Yucatan area of Mexico. I would love to show you around the sights and show you how we get down out here in the Yucatan! Here's to another amazing adventure filled year! Feliz 2025 Gabriel!
Happy New Year to you too Gabriel! May it be full of joy, peace. good health and staying safe! Love your wisdom, in your advice...take care dear friend!
Do you still have your favorite hotel blanket? I see a new one? Thank you again for your video, always enjoy watching and listening to what you have to say and your travels.
Flying is absolutely the safest form of transport and commercial aircraft undergo rigorous safety protocols. Thanks for this video and I wish you a happy New Year.
Hi Gabriel, thanks for all your great videos. Your videos allow us to travel to many beautiful places. I don’t particularly like to travel by plane but I know it is extremely regulated and as you said, planes are technological marvels. Happy new year from Montreal!
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Mid Jan to mid Feb I’m off to Philippines,Taiwan,Vietnam then end of March got 3 weeks travelling around Japan,South Korea & China. Really looking forward to it.
I used to work on pumps and motors for a living. Pumps , motors fail. You can maintain them. Sometimes they fail when they’re brand new. Sometimes they’ll last far beyond expectations. Add in human error. And yes there is risk. I travel a lot. Slow travel. I hate flying. Always have. But my love of travel outweighs my fear of flying. Have had some very very rough flights at times. But what can you do? Once you’re up in the air it’s out of your hands. Tell the people you love that you love them. Live life and do what you want. Don’t put it off Whether a king or a street sweeper we all got a date with the Grim Reaper. What can you do?
The South Korea incident was the result of someone putting a wall at end of runway. The two pilots perfectly landed the plane on its belly & everyone on board would be alive right now if it wasn’t for a concrete wall placed off the end of the runway. Imagine those two pilots landing the plane perfectly & thinking ‘whew… we made it’ only to then see a huge wall coming at them at 100 mph. Total BS & I hope every passenger’s family gets compensation for the stupidity on S Korea’s part for putting a wall at end of a runway
There is a security footage video of the plane as it was descending onto the runway which showed one of the engines billowing smoke. One of the crew members who was questioned after the event also corroborated that this was in fact the case. Boeing messed up, again.
@ the pilots successfully LANDED the plane! Nothing would have occurred ( plane blowing up ) IF it didn’t hit a wall. Ask yourself this… was the plane on fire as it slid down the runway? Sure they need to find out why the landing gear did not activate but pilots train to land planes without landing gear… and successfully do it all the time. It isn’t until a stupid WALL that shouldn’t be there is HIT that things go terribly wrong
@@Charlie666- Did you see the video? The plane was skidding on the runway in one piece until it hit the concrete wall and exploded. The plane would've eventually come to a complete stop on it's own if it had more runway, or maybe something to help slow it down like sand.
@@AlphaDinoyeah, exactly why the only two survivors were the crew in the very back tail of the plane. If the plane didn’t hit the wall and break apart the other people could have survived as well
Happy New Year Gabriel! Insightful video. Makes total sense, although the stakes are really high in a plane. Even just being in a close call situation would probably age me by about a decade, but still highly unlikely. Puebla has some amazing food. I recommend Antojitos Tomy De la esquina, or, Antojitos Acapulco which are both on the same street in El Centro. Very cheap, and both have amazing food. I recommend checking out Cholula and the market there as well. Also, you gotta try Mole Poblano.
'the stakes are really high in a plane' - Yes, absolutely. Statistically, air travel may be demonstrably safe, but it is often existential when it goes wrong. This is the unspoken deal we all make when we board a plane. It's a risk, with a very low likelihood of survival if it all goes wrong (compared to most other modes of travel).
i agree 100% love your videos ive been watching you for years you and kara and nate are my favorite . I travel some not as much as you i couldnt travel as much as you do i would get burned out. I used to get excited going to new places but not so much anymore.
Who is in Puebla has to go to the two Cholulas 10 km away. Two magic towns with the highest restaurant density in Mexiko. Like a city at the beach. Also Angelopolis!
Happy New Year Gabriel! Thank you for all the fabulous countries you showed us throughout the year. Loved every one of your videos. Here’s to more adventures and subscribers to come in 2025. Best wishes and safe travels.🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️
Hi Gabriel, I have been watching your videos for six years now. Until not too long ago, I remember your accommodation costs were around $15-$25 per night. However, lately, I have noticed that they have increased to as much as $80-$90 per night. Could you please cover the rising expenses in your travels over the last 4-5 years and how you have managed to cope with them?
Superman says the same thing about air travel and now you too...that's good enough for me! :) Wishing you safe and happy travels, and all the best in the New Year!! 🥂
Happy New Year Gabe. Christmas has been hectic with family but I look forward to another year of you now. Still waiting for a bright Mexican pompom garland in the post?! X
Happy New Year, Gabe! 🎉 all the best in 2025, safe travels, wellness, and peace. Air travel is the safest transportation. The reality is, in every single step in life, there are risks, but we can not leave fear take over, we don't need to be reckless, but neither to stop our dreams or projects. All the best ❤ keep traveling and sharing your adventures.
Happy New Year from Hampi, India. Thank you for recommending it. Awesome place. I thought about the plane crashed, probably a lot safer than these sleeper busses. Like #700
Happy New Year! What I've noticed is, often after a major plane crash there is another plane crash soon after. Completely unrelated, just a strange coincidence I've noticed over the years. I have been on maybe 60 airplanes in my life so far. People are afraid of flying (and I'm one of them) because of the altitude and also the feeling of complete helplessness as it's out of our control. Phobias aren't logical, so not amount of stats is going to override a phobia. Also, if you've ever had a very scary experience on a plane it can affect you. I'd still avoid flying over war zones, just in case. It's not the first time a plane has been accidentally shot down by a missile. People that are religious are less afraid of flying and dying, in general. I was flying with a religious relative and her attitude was: it's fate, if we're meant to go now, there's nothing we can do to stop it. Having said that, car travel is so much more dangerous. Ironically, I know of someone who died in a car accident on the way to the airport, finally returning to his home country after years of living abroad. Very tragic story.
As someone who does not like flying, I am absolutely agree with the points in the video. The reason why I do not like flying is because you do not have any control of the situation, while with any ather form of transportation, beside maybe a skilifts, you have more or less control. But as you said logically planes ate very safe and reliable.
Hi Gabriel, the only form of travel that may be safer is train travel. However, considering what you said about flying above thirty thousand feet for hours over a vast ocean and arriving in hours daily, it is amazing.
@@madmousetales Right on, sounds good. From Goa it isn't far to Hampi which is one of the most interesting places in India. Not sure if you've already been there.
Happy new year! Yes, fear of flying is pretty much an irrational fear, much like fear of sharks, there are some 5 shark attack fatalities per year in the entire world yet it's one of people's biggest fears when swimming. Well, not 100% irritational, but almost.
I think Some people dont feel safe not being on the ground.. i personality love flying in airplnes. I even skydived for the First time 2 years ago.. an insane experience. You gotta try it someday
Puebla, beautiful historical city, I was there December 2021. Puebla was the capital of the "New Spain" during the colonial invasion. "New Spain" is today's Mexico. It's also the city where the Mexican army defeated the French army on May 5 1862 ( Cinco de Mayo) The first library in the Americas is in the city. Enjoy!
It's one segment of society where statistically, we've improved. It's never been safer to fly partly because of absolute attention put on "internal controls" having learned lessons from past accidents. This isn't to say that those controls can't be compromised when parties have self interests to serve. I think the Tenerife disaster was monolithic in producing necessary regulation. If I recall from an episode of "Mayday" or something similar way back.....the attitude of the most senior pilot of one of the two planes and the circumstances surrounding events produced the kind of impatience and poor decision making which culminated with the collision. The thing about life is that nothing is for certain despite man's good intention and effective execution. We can all look to recent events whereby expectations were met with far differing results.
Yes! I agree you're safer in the air than on the ground! With that said, I wish you a New Year full of peace, love happiness n spectacular travels, Gabe! Be safe have loads of fun and new experiences! ✌🏼🥂🎉🎆 may 2025 be the year for us all!
Rick Steves has a book (Travel as a Political Act) that addresses the statistics of flying deaths and driving deaths precisely. It freaked me out how deadly cars can be, and he pointed out that the vast majority of lives that could be saved if we lowered the speed limits on highways from 75 to 55, yet none of us are in favor of that kind of life saving craziness.
About 4 hours by bus from Puebla....a village, Cuetzalan! It's beautiful. At the entrance to the church, Los Voladores (flying men) perform their ceremony a few times a day. Women wear traditional clothing. There are tropical waterfalls, the market spills into the side streets from the zocalo, and there are some ruins. You would love it.
Commercial airlines have had automated systems to help the aircraft, and it will become common in cars pretty soon making driving safer than humans, humans making dumb errors like looking at their cellphones or driving intoxicated.
People should know that airline crashes have been on the decline. It’s the lessons learned from these crashes that have help prevent new ones. Unfortunately they do still occur. Luckily airline manufacturers quickly to try and find the cause so they can address the issue. A single crash killing so many people at once has a lot to do with the social impact of crashes.
Been to San Miguel de Allende? If not it's worth a trip, happy to have you as a guest for a couple of days! Cheers for 2025, may it bring with it many adventures -
I also occasionally fly around the world. I would avoid the airlines or plane models in question for a while (including certain Boeing models), to give them time to fix their mistakes.
Airplane companies spent a heck of a lot of money on advertising over decades trying to convince people with the myth that "flying is the safest form of travel". Of course it isn't. But unfortunately its often the only way to travel. I somewhat agree with Paul Theroux, who says that if you flew in to a country then you haven't experienced it!
Hi Gabriel like your videos , I was born in Mexico but I’m retired now and leaving in one of your favorite places. Kauai next time you come back to Kauai I would like to meet you , I’m in the Kōloa poipu area.
Dont live life in fear; live it in unbridled curiousity and hope for the future
Exactly. And look before you leap.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos exactly! 'looking before you leap' & a little bit of due research before we make our decision, is an excellent way to manage ANY 'trouble' situation; taking responsibility before we decide.
😁👍
I was on the BKK to Seoul route with Jeju approximately one month ago. You never know when your day will come but keep living life as it it's your last!
This wasn’t in Seoul
@@kg7148His point is that he flew with Jeju airlines.
Can't imagine why this channel has less than a million subs!!!! Deserves more than a million for sure.
Meanwhile thousands died in car crashes across the world that day. It’s safe to fly. May they rest in peace ❤️
But there's a good chance you'll survive a car crash - I've been in 3. Nobody can say they've survived that many plane crashes. Also, people feel like they have more control when driving. The statistics on driving are bad I would imagine, but people have the choices to consider when to driving - time of day, traffic, place, road conditions, etc. When you're in a plane, you just have to sit back and hope for the best fingers crossed - yikes.
@@brendangannon9286Gannon, you've been hitting the grog today or what. The point is that plane crashes are rare, but deadly car crashes are not. The chance of surviving each type of crash is not the point. Have a pint 🍺 on me laddy.
@ people do survive plane crashes too. Control relies on type of accident, if it’s your day to die it’s you day
@LadyMul effectively every person in the worlds goes on the road in cars, lorries, bus passengers, etc etc. It's essentially 100% of the worlds population vs. the small percentage that flies on planes every year. When you introduce these relevant statistics, flying starts looking a lot less safe by the numbers. And then if you go airline by airline it starts getting scary
@brendangannon9286 rubbish, you need a class in statistics. Hide in your basement and learn how stats actually work.
Happy New Year Gabe!!! 😎 Thank you for another year of awesome videos!!! ☮☮☮
I am glad you posted this Gabriell - im getting on a plane in just a few hours!
Happy New Year! 🎉
Have a nice trip, where you headed?
@GabrielTravelerVideos Istanbul
Excellent, it's amazing, enjoy. And if you get the chance try to go to Cappadocia.
Facts. ❤ Happy new year, Gabe. Thank you for all the wonderful content creation and inspiration. 🎉
See you next year bro heres to another 100,000 subs!
Prayers you will always stay safe in your travels, Gabe. Happy New Year!
Happy new year everyone 😀 .
Your comment about the car ride to the airport being more risky than the flight resonated with me. One year I flew to Thailand and Cambodia for Christmas, and the scariest thing that happened on the entire trip was the drive to the YVR. The roads were incredibly icy, and some drivers seemed unaware that the conditions called for reduced speeds and no sudden moves. Ten minutes from the airport a car made an illegal and unsafe crossing of an intersection right in front of me and I had to avoid it without skidding into anything else, and it left me so shaken that when I got to the airport I had to take a few minutes in the parking lot to regain my composure.
no kidding!
I worked for a international airline for many years. The public has no idea of the dangerous near misses, mechanical malfunction or pilot error or illness (stroke/heart attack in the cockpit). You will never hear about it!
That's comforting to know!🤣
I was on a plane not long ago that was delayed by a day due to mechanical repairs, then it was delayed for over an hour after we boarded for a 'technical' problem. When the plane finally took off, water was squirting from several areas along the wing during the entire ascent, as if some fire-extinguishing response accidentally went off. I've been on several dozens of flights and was alarmed as I've never seen that before but no one else on the plane noticed. Ignorance is bliss. Thankfully nothing else malfunctioned 😅
Happy New Year, Gabriel!!
All the best in next year Gabriel🎉
Good point. My son texted me yesterday and was concerned the crashes - as he wants to go to Bali. Thank you for the change in perspective!
Bali is so beautiful. A nearby island named Nusa Penida has a great photo spots. Have a nice trip.
Thank you sir for the countless hours of entertainment, you really are one of a kind, in the best way possible. Happy New Year, and take care.
Happy New Year. Terrible tragedies, but no reason not to fly when you need to.
I am going to Vietnam in February and I I am flying with Jeju airlines, the airline that had the crash in Korea a few days ago. That will not stop me from going. This was their first ever crash and they are a relatively safe airline. There is a risk in everything we do. I cannot stop living my travel dream because of that.Happy new year Gabriel 🎉😊
Happy New Years Gabriel 🙂💙👍
Happy New Year Gabriel! So Happy to see you wanting to spend it out here in Mexico celebrating and bringing in the New Year with us! You have been a huge inspiration to so many of us for over a decade! I remember you watching you over 7 years ago before ever even thinking about moving to Mexico. You are the GOAT of Travel UA-cam! Hit me up if you are ever in the Merida Yucatan area of Mexico. I would love to show you around the sights and show you how we get down out here in the Yucatan! Here's to another amazing adventure filled year! Feliz 2025 Gabriel!
Yay! Love your channel too!
Every day new HAPPY NEW YEAR 🍾 Gabriel
Happy new year Gabriel 🎉looking forward to many more travel videos
Happy new year Gabe, you’re the B E S T!
Thanks for the facts Gabriel. Have a wonderful New Year ! 🙏
Happy New Year to you, take care of yourself and just keep on going.
Happy New travels 🎉
Happy New Year to you too Gabriel! May it be full of joy, peace. good health and staying safe! Love your wisdom, in your advice...take care dear friend!
Do you still have your favorite hotel blanket? I see a new one? Thank you again for your video, always enjoy watching and listening to what you have to say and your travels.
When your numbers up, your numbers up!
Flying is absolutely the safest form of transport and commercial aircraft undergo rigorous safety protocols. Thanks for this video and I wish you a happy New Year.
Today's aircrafts are super safe and well designed. 1 was shot out of the sky and the 2nd landed safely only to fly into a dam wall. Waaaaa!
Hi Gabriel, thanks for all your great videos. Your videos allow us to travel to many beautiful places. I don’t particularly like to travel by plane but I know it is extremely regulated and as you said, planes are technological marvels. Happy new year from Montreal!
Greyhound is waiting for you Claude
You got to face it. Life is flying at high speed in an aluminum tube that you really can't explain.
Happy New Year, Gabriel! Thank you for your interesting travel reports. Keep on travelling. The air transport is the safiest!
I hope so mate, i've got 17 flights in the next 4 months! Happy new year Gabe. John
Wow, sounds like a big trip coming up. Which parts of the world? Happy New Year, cheers. 🍺
100, 000 flights everyday, fella.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Mid Jan to mid Feb I’m off to Philippines,Taiwan,Vietnam then end of March got 3 weeks travelling around Japan,South Korea & China. Really looking forward to it.
Right on, those same countries are where I'm considering going next but haven't decided quite yet.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Would be great if you could touch base with Tommie Sabbatical or Small Brained American 👍
Well said brother 👏 👍 👌 happy New year 🎉!!
I used to work on pumps and motors for a living. Pumps , motors fail. You can maintain them. Sometimes they fail when they’re brand new. Sometimes they’ll last far beyond expectations.
Add in human error. And yes there is risk. I travel a lot. Slow travel.
I hate flying. Always have. But my love of travel outweighs my fear of flying. Have had some very very rough flights at times.
But what can you do? Once you’re up in the air it’s out of your hands.
Tell the people you love that you love them. Live life and do what you want. Don’t put it off
Whether a king or a street sweeper we all got a date with the Grim Reaper.
What can you do?
happy new years Gabreil !
Everybody dies, but most don't ever truly live. Happy new year man 🎉🤙
The South Korea incident was the result of someone putting a wall at end of runway. The two pilots perfectly landed the plane on its belly & everyone on board would be alive right now if it wasn’t for a concrete wall placed off the end of the runway. Imagine those two pilots landing the plane perfectly & thinking ‘whew… we made it’ only to then see a huge wall coming at them at 100 mph. Total BS & I hope every passenger’s family gets compensation for the stupidity on S Korea’s part for putting a wall at end of a runway
No it crashed as a result of the landing gear not working so that needs to be investigated more so than the wall.
There is a security footage video of the plane as it was descending onto the runway which showed one of the engines billowing smoke. One of the crew members who was questioned after the event also corroborated that this was in fact the case. Boeing messed up, again.
@ the pilots successfully LANDED the plane! Nothing would have occurred ( plane blowing up ) IF it didn’t hit a wall. Ask yourself this… was the plane on fire as it slid down the runway? Sure they need to find out why the landing gear did not activate but pilots train to land planes without landing gear… and successfully do it all the time. It isn’t until a stupid WALL that shouldn’t be there is HIT that things go terribly wrong
@@Charlie666- Did you see the video? The plane was skidding on the runway in one piece until it hit the concrete wall and exploded. The plane would've eventually come to a complete stop on it's own if it had more runway, or maybe something to help slow it down like sand.
@@AlphaDinoyeah, exactly why the only two survivors were the crew in the very back tail of the plane. If the plane didn’t hit the wall and break apart the other people could have survived as well
Happy New Year Gabriel! Insightful video. Makes total sense, although the stakes are really high in a plane. Even just being in a close call situation would probably age me by about a decade, but still highly unlikely. Puebla has some amazing food. I recommend Antojitos Tomy De la esquina, or, Antojitos Acapulco which are both on the same street in El Centro. Very cheap, and both have amazing food. I recommend checking out Cholula and the market there as well. Also, you gotta try Mole Poblano.
'the stakes are really high in a plane' - Yes, absolutely. Statistically, air travel may be demonstrably safe, but it is often existential when it goes wrong. This is the unspoken deal we all make when we board a plane. It's a risk, with a very low likelihood of survival if it all goes wrong (compared to most other modes of travel).
i agree 100% love your videos ive been watching you for years you and kara and nate are my favorite . I travel some not as much as you i couldnt travel as much as you do i would get burned out. I used to get excited going to new places but not so much anymore.
Happy new year Gabe.
Who is in Puebla has to go to the two Cholulas 10 km away. Two magic towns with the highest restaurant density in Mexiko. Like a city at the beach. Also Angelopolis!
Happy New Year Gabriel! Thank you for all the fabulous countries you showed us throughout the year. Loved every one of your videos. Here’s to more adventures and subscribers to come in 2025. Best wishes and safe travels.🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️
Hi Gabriel,
I have been watching your videos for six years now. Until not too long ago, I remember your accommodation costs were around $15-$25 per night. However, lately, I have noticed that they have increased to as much as $80-$90 per night. Could you please cover the rising expenses in your travels over the last 4-5 years and how you have managed to cope with them?
Now that Gabriel has over 607k subscribers and his videos millions of views, he can splurge more than in the past.
You can still find those cheaper accommodations in many places but yeah if you can afford to pay a bit more for a bit nicer place than why not???
Happy New Year, Gabriel! 🎆🎉🎊🍾🍷Be safe! Always say a prayer 🙏for you.
Happy New Year 🎉
Happy new 2025 year 🎉Great work bro 👍Thanks for sharing and all the best 😁✌🍻
Superman says the same thing about air travel and now you too...that's good enough for me! :)
Wishing you safe and happy travels, and all the best in the New Year!! 🥂
Cool man, have a great 2025. 🍺✌️
Planes still safest form of travel by a wide margin. Thanks for covering the topic
That would be the Japanese Shinkansen bullit trains. Exactly zero casualties since they began operations in the 1960's
@ageoflove1980 cool
Happy New Year Gabe. Christmas has been hectic with family but I look forward to another year of you now. Still waiting for a bright Mexican pompom garland in the post?! X
Happy New Year, Gabe! 🎉 all the best in 2025, safe travels, wellness, and peace. Air travel is the safest transportation. The reality is, in every single step in life, there are risks, but we can not leave fear take over, we don't need to be reckless, but neither to stop our dreams or projects. All the best ❤ keep traveling and sharing your adventures.
Wishing you a Happy New Year 2025 as well, Gabriel. Warm greetings from Germany.
Puebla was my safe haven for two years during the pandemic. It's a special place.
So true! The risk is much higher that you get killed by a car while exiting the airport than in the airplane itself.
Happy New Year from Hampi, India. Thank you for recommending it. Awesome place. I thought about the plane crashed, probably a lot safer than these sleeper busses. Like #700
Sweet, enjoy. If you want to go somewhere else relatively close there's Badami which is quite interesting as well. Happy New Year. 🍺
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Thank you I will look it up. We might stay a few more days than planned here.
Happy new year bro💫
Thanks man, you too, have a great 2025. ✌️🍺
Happy New Year!
What I've noticed is, often after a major plane crash there is another plane crash soon after. Completely unrelated, just a strange coincidence I've noticed over the years. I have been on maybe 60 airplanes in my life so far. People are afraid of flying (and I'm one of them) because of the altitude and also the feeling of complete helplessness as it's out of our control. Phobias aren't logical, so not amount of stats is going to override a phobia. Also, if you've ever had a very scary experience on a plane it can affect you. I'd still avoid flying over war zones, just in case. It's not the first time a plane has been accidentally shot down by a missile. People that are religious are less afraid of flying and dying, in general. I was flying with a religious relative and her attitude was: it's fate, if we're meant to go now, there's nothing we can do to stop it. Having said that, car travel is so much more dangerous. Ironically, I know of someone who died in a car accident on the way to the airport, finally returning to his home country after years of living abroad. Very tragic story.
As someone who does not like flying, I am absolutely agree with the points in the video. The reason why I do not like flying is because you do not have any control of the situation, while with any ather form of transportation, beside maybe a skilifts, you have more or less control. But as you said logically planes ate very safe and reliable.
Wish you a Happy New Year!
And May God Bless You 🙌 🙏
Happy New Years Gabe, and safe travels in 2025!
Hi Gabriel, the only form of travel that may be safer is train travel. However, considering what you said about flying above thirty thousand feet for hours over a vast ocean and arriving in hours daily, it is amazing.
One wasnt a crash, it was blown out the sky
Yes, I explained that in the video.
Happy New Year!
From Citrus County, FLORIDA!
Hi Gabe!
Happy New Year!!!
I think flight tickets should be more cheaper. They are hard to afford in peak seasons.
Planes are up there on the greatest human conquests.., unbelievable indeed.
It is scary to me , especially as I’m flying to India in a week , I know it’ll be fine. but those crashes must have been horrific for those involved
Where are you planning to go in India?
@@GabrielTravelerVideosgonna spend some time in Goa but make some trips to other places in maharashtra, karnataka, kerala etc. 😊
@@madmousetales I hope you have a very nice and fun trip!!
@@madmousetales Right on, sounds good. From Goa it isn't far to Hampi which is one of the most interesting places in India. Not sure if you've already been there.
@ I haven’t actually been , but am planning to go 😁
Happy 2025 Gabriel ! 🇬🇷❤
Puebla is one of our favorite cities in Mexico. -Marc
Happy new year! Yes, fear of flying is pretty much an irrational fear, much like fear of sharks, there are some 5 shark attack fatalities per year in the entire world yet it's one of people's biggest fears when swimming. Well, not 100% irritational, but almost.
I think Some people dont feel safe not being on the ground.. i personality love flying in airplnes. I even skydived for the First time 2 years ago.. an insane experience. You gotta try it someday
Puebla, beautiful historical city, I was there December 2021. Puebla was the capital of the "New Spain" during the colonial invasion. "New Spain" is today's Mexico. It's also the city where the Mexican army defeated the French army on May 5 1862 ( Cinco de Mayo)
The first library in the Americas is in the city.
Enjoy!
It's one segment of society where statistically, we've improved. It's never been safer to fly partly because of absolute attention put on "internal controls" having learned lessons from past accidents. This isn't to say that those controls can't be compromised when parties have self interests to serve. I think the Tenerife disaster was monolithic in producing necessary regulation. If I recall from an episode of "Mayday" or something similar way back.....the attitude of the most senior pilot of one of the two planes and the circumstances surrounding events produced the kind of impatience and poor decision making which culminated with the collision. The thing about life is that nothing is for certain despite man's good intention and effective execution. We can all look to recent events whereby expectations were met with far differing results.
Yes! I agree you're safer in the air than on the ground! With that said, I wish you a New Year full of peace, love happiness n spectacular travels, Gabe! Be safe have loads of fun and new experiences! ✌🏼🥂🎉🎆 may 2025 be the year for us all!
Very informative video 👍Thanks a lot for sharing and happy 2025 new year bro 🎉😁✌
Wait & walk doesn’t really get you very far, does it? Life seems to be a gambler's game. Play it out the best you can.. 🌲😎🌲
I have always associated you with positivity. Hopefully in 2025 and beyond , you will bring us lots more.
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Have a wonderful New Year🎉🎉🎉
Rick Steves has a book (Travel as a Political Act) that addresses the statistics of flying deaths and driving deaths precisely. It freaked me out how deadly cars can be, and he pointed out that the vast majority of lives that could be saved if we lowered the speed limits on highways from 75 to 55, yet none of us are in favor of that kind of life saving craziness.
In Europe, we have a lot of places with GPS jamming. Americas and Asia not to seem to have those problems.
About 4 hours by bus from Puebla....a village, Cuetzalan! It's beautiful. At the entrance to the church, Los Voladores (flying men) perform their ceremony a few times a day. Women wear traditional clothing. There are tropical waterfalls, the market spills into the side streets from the zocalo, and there are some ruins. You would love it.
Thanks for the tip, looks nice.
Collateral Damage is a small price to pay for a deiverse workforce..
Just choose reputable airlines with good safety standards sometimes the cheapest isnt always the best
Happy new year
Well, the chances of surviving a plane crash are pretty dismal compared to a car accident, that’s what bothers me.
And just when I was getting over my fear of flying...
some one asked "how often to airplanes crash?"
i replied "usually once.."
Commercial airlines have had automated systems to help the aircraft, and it will become common in cars pretty soon making driving safer than humans, humans making dumb errors like looking at their cellphones or driving intoxicated.
People should know that airline crashes have been on the decline. It’s the lessons learned from these crashes that have help prevent new ones. Unfortunately they do still occur. Luckily airline manufacturers quickly to try and find the cause so they can address the issue. A single crash killing so many people at once has a lot to do with the social impact of crashes.
Been to San Miguel de Allende? If not it's worth a trip, happy to have you as a guest for a couple of days! Cheers for 2025, may it bring with it many adventures -
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Boeing execs need to be held accountable to the highest degree possible. Enough is enough, and it was enough long ago.
I also occasionally fly around the world. I would avoid the airlines or plane models in question for a while (including certain Boeing models), to give them time to fix their mistakes.
Like your top Gabriel
Thanks, I forget where I got it but probably Thailand or India.
Happy new year.. Hope you come back to Indian subcontinent this year
Extremely likely. ✌️
Airplane companies spent a heck of a lot of money on advertising over decades trying to convince people with the myth that "flying is the safest form of travel". Of course it isn't. But unfortunately its often the only way to travel. I somewhat agree with Paul Theroux, who says that if you flew in to a country then you haven't experienced it!
Hi Gabriel like your videos , I was born in Mexico but I’m retired now and leaving in one of your favorite places. Kauai next time you come back to Kauai I would like to meet you , I’m in the Kōloa poipu area.
Staying at home in bed is not safe either, nothing is completely safe!
Shark mattress incidents have been on the rise lately, better to get out of bed.
When you see how many flights there is a year and how many crash, its safer than walking or driving.
Safe, unless you are on the crashed flights.
I have the experiences of round trips BKk-Jeju and BKK-Pusan by Jeju air. The trips are fine, no problem.