If I understand you correctly, the journey matters less and less (from adventure to sleeping pill), so it's not important where you are? It's probably the reason why most airlines don't have maps anymore, or hide them somewhere deep on their site.

Have you ever had the joy of flying with Ryanair? They can get you from small airport to small airport really cheaply (30 euro is no exception) but they try to screw you over at every turn. There's a reason more than half of their Wiki page is under Criticism.

I've never looked more at a little plane icon on a map more than when I flew back from Hong Kong. My plane had those in-flight entertainment brick-iPad devices, where you can track down to the minute how long you still have to sit and down to the mile where you are. Even though you're going so fast, everything looks slow if you still need to wait 6 hours.

The map is very much for picking out where to go - when I want to go on a trip, anything is an option. It's the equivalent of throwing a dart at a world map, but you also know how to get there.