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What are advantages and disadvantages of air transport?

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Advantages:
It is the fastest means of transportation.
Comfortable for long distance travel.
Suitable for rapid movement of valuable and perishable cargo. .
It is the only means to reach inaccessible area.
It is also highly affective during emergency like when routes get blocked due to landslides, avalanches, flood etc. Strategically airways are very significant.
Disadvantages:
Costly, not within reach of poor people.
It is also expensive to maintain aircrafts as well as the airports.
It.s operation dependent on the weather conditions.
Construction of airports is limited by certain physical constrains.
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