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Will Space Flight Be As Common As Airline Flights?

This is one the many things that are roving in my head at the moment. I remeber watching the Discovery channel and there was a show on the future of flight and that one day the average person will be taking flights through space like they take a airline flight. I wonder if this will ever be possible and if so what will the aircraft look like.

Public Comments

1. Unless we find a planet that can sustain life in a McDonald's (plus get a cell phone signal), I don't think any Earthlings would care to go, so the answer is 'no'.
2. Along the same lines as the above poster, the only reason for a person to take a flight into outer space, especially as routinely as an airline flight, would presumably to arrive at a certain destination not on Earth. Since this appears to be the only planet within any reasonable distance that can currently sustain life, space travel for the average joe is simply unreasonable, going to be very costly, and a waste of time. People already complain about 14 hour commercial airline flights (myself included). Imagine being cooped up for a week or more. And that's just going to the moon, with a minimal crew and not much in the way of luxuries, not to mention the amount of training required for each person to safely leave the Earth's atmosphere. Remember, most crew members are pilot-trained themselves and have logged countless hours of flight time, not to mention many having military aviation backgrounds. Not in anyone's lifetime who's alive right now unfortunately.
3. No. Leaving the atmosphere on a routine basis would incredibly wearing on a "plane." Not to mention, they could never train an every day traveler like astronauts are trained. It is a funny thought though.
4. Only after we get past rocket boosters.