NY to LA is, what, 6 hours? There's easily 2-3 hours of wasted time around each end of that period. Getting to the airport (because airports are insanely far f

NY to LA is, what, 6 hours? There's easily 2-3 hours of wasted time around each end of that period. Getting to the airport (because airports are insanely far from anywhere anyone usually is), getting through security, baggage, mandatory check-in cutoff times, etc etc. These all collectively end up eating 4-5 hours in additional time besides time in flight. That's a total travel time on the order of 9-11 hours. Even if we halved the flight time it'd still be 6-9 hours. I don't know about you, but getting from anywhere in Manhattan out to JFK takes me about an hour via public transit. About 40 minutes via cab in decent traffic. These things add up. What I care about is door to door travel time, not just one portion of it. The moment someone invents a plane I can show up to 15 minutes before departure, walk on, and sit down, that'd be a revolution.