So why would I pay American Airlines a mere hundred thirty bucks to fly non-stop from LA to Denver when I could pay almost five hundred to do it through Miami?
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So why would I pay American Airlines a mere hundred thirty bucks to fly non-stop from LA to Denver when I could pay almost five hundred to do it through Miami?
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Speaking of air travel, have any of the yahoos promoting spending megabillions on high-speed rail ever considered what such a network would do to the airlines? Assuming that high-speed rail could be cost-competitive in the first place.
Uh, because lots of your readers are AMR employees and will shop like mad through your Amazon search bar?
Hey, it makes as much sense as “jobs created or saved” …
Alan — you say that like they think it would be a bad thing. They keep telling us rubes that we should be lowering our carbon footprint and not fly. Well ta da! They made air travel as painful and expensive as they could and now are trotting out railroads.
IMHO, it’s not a coincidence or a side-effect, it’s on purpose.
How about this flight?
Baltimore Washington – Washington National
Total distance: 1,872 mi (3,013 km)
Total duration: 5hr 53mn (8hr 29mn with connections)
Total cost: $390.60
Sat 27-Feb-10
Baltimore (BWI)
Depart 7:30 am to Atlanta (ATL)
Arrive 9:40 am
Terminal SOUTH TERMINAL 578 mi
Duration: 2hr 10mn
DL Flight: 1879
Atlanta (ATL)
Depart 10:51 am
Terminal SOUTH TERMINAL to Milwaukee (MKE)
Arrive 11:55 am 671 mi
Duration: 2hr 4mn
DL Flight: 5949
Operated by: SHUTTLE AMERICA DELTA CONNECTION
Milwaukee (MKE)
Depart 1:20 pm to Washington (DCA)
Arrive 3:59 pm 623 mi
Duration: 1hr 39mn
Midwest Flight: 1622
No way to do a green high-speed rail without going to nuke power, so the enviros better be careful what they ask for.
First the (now defunct) Trans-Texas Corridor, which would have essentially replaced our interstate system at high cost, now European-style high-speed rail mania. Blazing Saddles is having waay too much influence over public policy.
You could go get some good Cuban food? You might want to fly over your old house in FL? You’ve got a burning desire to PERSONALLY help stimulate the economy?!
They keep wanting me to fly from LA to Orlando with a stop in New York. I keep refusing.
You guys aren’t looking it correctly: Wildly overshooting your destination twice will net you so darn many extra airline miles…