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> Vector’s board convinced Lore to return as president and CEO. She began commuting over with an 800-mile round trip every day from her home in San Francisco.

by tromp 5y ago

> Vector’s board convinced Lore to return as president and CEO. She began commuting over with an 800-mile round trip every day from her home in San Francisco. How is that even possible? Two flights every day?

adventured 5y ago
Joe Biden did a three hour Amtrak trip (90 minutes each way) almost daily for 36 years for example. "Biden's apparently traveled over 2 million miles, the equivalent of four years of his life, on Amtrak." https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32363173/joe-biden-amtrak-joe-meaning/ https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32363173/joe-biden-amt...
- srtjstjsj 5y ago
  That's only a third of the 800 mile commute.
  - adventured 5y ago
    I'm not sure what you're getting at. The distance by itself isn't particularly meaningful, the speed traveled + distance is. Amtrak is quite slow. Jetliners are ~4-8x faster.
bityard 5y ago
Back then, there was no TSA screening process that took 1-2 hours of waiting in line, planes were smaller, airports were less busy, flights left on time whether they were full or not, and you could smoke on the plane. It would have been pretty expensive unless she or the company negotiated some kind of discount with the airline but lots of people today quite regularly commute 2 hours or more one-way in their car or on the train, so...
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
  Oh my god I completely forgot about stuff like the NY - DC shuttle. You could show up at LGA, walk up to the counter and buy a ticket for a flight that ran once an hour and be in the air literally within minutes. The last time I remember it being that easy was probably 9/13/2001. An ex-girlfriend was trying to get to DC from MSP because her father worked in the Pentagon and she hadn't heard from him. She called me from the airport in a panic at 2AM asking for help because her credit card was declined. I drove to the airport, groggily handed the ticket agent my card and drove back home. She was probably on the plane before I got home. Then a few weeks later came all the TSA crap...
AlbertCory 5y ago
Airline flights for the day are a frequent part of my book [1] which takes place in roughly the same time frame and geography. It wasn't really 400 air miles from LA to SF, but chalk that up to hyperbole. I used to leave the house in Hawthorne at 7:15 for an 8:00 flight from LAX, believe it or not. The other poster mentions that you could smoke on the plane (in the back rows) and that was true, disgustingly enough. [1] https://www.albertcory.io https://www.albertcory.io
- dhosek 5y ago
  I remember getting stuck in the smoking section once or twice in the bad old days. I begged the flight attendants to find someone who would switch seats with me.
  - AlbertCory 5y ago
    Even sitting in the back of the NON-smoking section was bad, because you were still close to the smokers. And let's not even talk about the departure lounges in the airports.

by tromp 5y ago

adventured 5y ago

Joe Biden did a three hour Amtrak trip (90 minutes each way) almost daily for 36 years for example. "Biden's apparently traveled over 2 million miles, the equivalent of four years of his life, on Amtrak." https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32363173/joe-biden-amtrak-joe-meaning/ https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32363173/joe-biden-amt...

srtjstjsj 5y ago
That's only a third of the 800 mile commute.
- adventured 5y ago
  I'm not sure what you're getting at. The distance by itself isn't particularly meaningful, the speed traveled + distance is. Amtrak is quite slow. Jetliners are ~4-8x faster.

bityard 5y ago

Back then, there was no TSA screening process that took 1-2 hours of waiting in line, planes were smaller, airports were less busy, flights left on time whether they were full or not, and you could smoke on the plane. It would have been pretty expensive unless she or the company negotiated some kind of discount with the airline but lots of people today quite regularly commute 2 hours or more one-way in their car or on the train, so...

HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
Oh my god I completely forgot about stuff like the NY - DC shuttle. You could show up at LGA, walk up to the counter and buy a ticket for a flight that ran once an hour and be in the air literally within minutes. The last time I remember it being that easy was probably 9/13/2001. An ex-girlfriend was trying to get to DC from MSP because her father worked in the Pentagon and she hadn't heard from him. She called me from the airport in a panic at 2AM asking for help because her credit card was declined. I drove to the airport, groggily handed the ticket agent my card and drove back home. She was probably on the plane before I got home. Then a few weeks later came all the TSA crap...

AlbertCory 5y ago

Airline flights for the day are a frequent part of my book [1] which takes place in roughly the same time frame and geography. It wasn't really 400 air miles from LA to SF, but chalk that up to hyperbole. I used to leave the house in Hawthorne at 7:15 for an 8:00 flight from LAX, believe it or not. The other poster mentions that you could smoke on the plane (in the back rows) and that was true, disgustingly enough. [1] https://www.albertcory.io https://www.albertcory.io

dhosek 5y ago
I remember getting stuck in the smoking section once or twice in the bad old days. I begged the flight attendants to find someone who would switch seats with me.
- AlbertCory 5y ago
  Even sitting in the back of the NON-smoking section was bad, because you were still close to the smokers. And let's not even talk about the departure lounges in the airports.