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Our company (based in LA) has party today at Vegas. A friend of mine decided to take the plane from LA -> Vegas, I took the bus, other people drove their cars..
by malkia 13y ago
Our company (based in LA) has party today at Vegas. A friend of mine decided to take the plane from LA -> Vegas, I took the bus, other people drove their cars.... And somehow I got 30-60 minutes earlier than him, if not more. Granted, due to the rain it was much harder for the planes to take off, but adding checkin time, checkout, taxi to the hotel, etc...
On top of that we had nice 30 minute break with the bus, at not so bad place (In-N-Out). And plenty of room to play monopoly on the iPad, read books, drink wine, stroll around, etc.
- yitchelle 13y agoI have found that the plane time travel door-to-door is almost slower than land base transport, especially train. If I travel from Cologne to Paris, car about 6.5 hrs, train is 3.5 hrs, plane is about 4.5 hrs.
- jheimark 13y agoThis definitely depends a lot on the airport and distance you are traveling. San Francisco to New York, Los Angeles to Chicago... America is too big for land to be faster. Stuff is a closer in Western Europe.
- yitchelle 13y agoYou are right. The example I gave is probably a bit skewed to faster travel times. If I had chosen say Barcelona to Moscow, times would have been a lot different. The other difference is that the trains in western Europe are much faster than their US counterparts as well.
- 1337biz 13y agoThis is really a big issue. I notice more and more metro areas are pushing their airports way back to the hinterlands. Especially for inter-European travel it seems kinda pointless to use airports when it takes already an hour just to get from an inner city area to the airport.