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> When Heathrow goes down, you’re proper stuck. Atlanta has DC, Miami right there "right there" It is a ten hour drive from Atlanta to DC. It is a nine hour d
by margalabargala 2y ago
> When Heathrow goes down, you’re proper stuck. Atlanta has DC, Miami right there
"right there"
It is a ten hour drive from Atlanta to DC. It is a nine hour drive from Atlanta to Miami.
It is a six hour drive from Heathrow to Paris.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- 4ndrewl 2y ago[flagged]
- margalabargala 2y agoNo, but it does include the time to get yourself and your vehicle on to and off of the train that carries vehicles through the Channel Tunnel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeShuttle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeShuttle
- 4ndrewl 2y agoYe, I've been travelling on it since the first week it opened. But if you were redirected and had to fend for yourself you would need to book ahead on a tunnel or boat, hire a car to drive from France to Coquelles - find somewhere to drop the car, hire another car in the UK. All assuming you land in Paris in the morning early enough to do all this.
- Symbiote 2y agoThen your comment about rowing across the sea is idiotic. The airlines that redirected flights to Paris arranged buses to London.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoHaving thought about it you're correct. Even if you over inflate your tyres it won't provide enough buoyancy even for the smallest Euro-car. An alternative reading to it 'being idiotic' is that it was clearly an exaggeration to prompt some critical thinking about the original claim.
- oefnak 2y agoThere's a train between the UK and France. It carries cars.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoThat I use regularly to actually drive from no-too-far from LHR to Paris and back. It's a thing I actually do. And I can tell you, it might be theoretically in Google Maps land to do the journey in 6 hours, but IRL in this scenario it won't happen. Actual empirical evidence.
- wqaatwt 2y agoWhat critical thinking? The train from London to Paris is barely above 2 hours. Why on earth would you drive if you’re in hurry?
- margalabargala 2y agoYes, all of which could be done in hours less time than it would take to get from Atlanta to any comparable airport. Consider the amount of train/ferry transit between London and Paris. That doesn't exist in the US. Rental car companies don't keep that much extra stock on hand, and really do not love renting cars for inter-state one-way journeys. I categorically reject that getting from Atlanta to London with ATL nonoperational would be either faster or easier than getting from London to Atlanta with LHR nonoperational.
- t0mas88 2y agoThe Eurostar train from London to Paris takes only 2.5 hours. Much faster than driving.
- maest 2y agoIt's also less agro
- 4ndrewl 2y agoIn theory yes, but we were specifically talking about driving. And whilst 6 hours CDG to LHR is possible in theory (and I've done it a number of times), it does depend on a whole load of other factors that are not present compared to hiring a car at US airport 1 and driving to US airport 2. Unless you're in the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
- margalabargala 2y agoI brought up driving to illustrate the incorrectness of the original claim, the person I replied to did not mention driving. The person you replied to is correct to bring up the EuroStar option. By the way, the snide remarks you add to the end to each of your comments may be better suited for a place like Reddit or TruthSocial. The community standards guidelines for HN can be found at the bottom of the page.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoI was replying to "It is a six hour drive from Heathrow to Paris." I live close enough to LHR to notice the replacement of Boeing/Airbus with Cessna/Pipers from local airfields in the sky today. I also regularly drive to and/from Paris. It is a six hour drive. But ONLY if you have your car ready, have booked a crossing ahead of time (otherwise you might want to slap another half day on those times), make no stops, you don't end up in a queue at UK customs (1 hour+ not infrequent occurrance). Don't happen to have your car sitting at CDG waiting for you? You'll have to hire one, but you'll be unlikely to be able to take that to the UK so you're then finding somewhere to drop that off and somehow cross as a foot passenger which you can't do on Le Shuttle... Point being, cross-border travel throws up all of these hurdles which you simply don't have in the US example.
- epolanski 2y agoIt's still "right there" overall, you can take a local flight that takes one hour. Most importantly, you're in the same country whereas in the case of LHR closing the number of airports able to handle widebody long haulers...are essentially all in countries with different customs and visas.
- netsharc 2y agoAt least Ireland and the UK are in one visa regime, outside of Schengen. And because there are plenty of flights between Ireland and Schengen countries, all commercial Irish airports should have passport control. But Dublin airport has about 1/2 the gates of Heathrow...
- chrisandchris 2y ago> It's still "right there" overall, you can take a local flight that takes one hour. From which airport? The one that is closed because there's no power?
- oyashirochama 2y agoThe US has dozens of smaller commercial and even private airports, same for London honestly so this isn't the greatest arguement except it doesn't need to deal with customs.
- MathMonkeyMan 2y agoFlorida is very long.