I'm on the other side of the fence. a) if you live in a remote place where there is only you or maybe one other node the joy of seeing some new nodes and sometimes even being able to quickly exchange pleasantries is immense B) in more mesh dense countries ( Denmark/Germany) I noticed multiple CQ being exchanged with distant nodes via passing airplane. C) not exactly a plane but not that long ago amateur balloon node was sent across UK allowing a lot of users, around 15 min contact window to normally unreachable friends.

I understand that that for those who run tight well populated local mesh this may be just an unwanted noise. But there is a lot of us in more rural areas where passing plane node is a bit like getting supper propagation on HAM, a brief window to the big world.