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> In EU you can get to a lot of destinations for much less than 100€. There's a lot of cheap destinations for domestic US flights, too. And the average length

• reisse 4y ago
  > And the average length of a flight in the US is longer, obviously. Not really. For US in 2018 it was ~700 miles (https://www.bts.dot.gov/newsroom/2018-traffic-data-us-airlines-and-foreign-airlines-us-flights https://www.bts.dot.gov/newsroom/2018-traffic-data-us-airlin...), and for EU in 2020 it was ~1000 kilometers (https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/2021-04/eurocontrol-data-snapshot-9-average-flight-2020.pdf https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/2021-04/euro...). There are a lot of short flights (anything not coast-to-coast or north-to-south, basically) that skew the average.
  • rootusrootus 4y ago
    Yeah for some reason five years ago it was significantly lower than today, it's gone up to around 850 miles now. Not that I can tell you precisely why, but that's what the stats say.
  • yellowapple 4y ago
    > Not really. For US in 2018 it was ~700 miles (https://www.bts.dot.gov/newsroom/2018-traffic-data-us-airlin https://www.bts.dot.gov/newsroom/2018-traffic-data-us-airlin...), and for EU in 2020 it was ~1000 kilometers (https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/2021-04/euro https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/2021-04/euro...). 700 miles is around 1127 kilometers... which I'm sure you knew and were just highlighting that US flights ain't that much longer than EU flights on average, but it's worth noting for clarity that they are indeed longer.