Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban

Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by Buttons840 on Monday June 13, 2016 @02:28PM (#11896065)

In Salt Lake City I recently saw on the local news that our airport recommended arriving 3 hours early for your flight. At the end of the report the news-caster said that SLC airport had below average wait times, as if that was suppose to make me feel better. It didn't.

"Things are bad here, but the good news is it's worse everywhere else." \s

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by Swizec on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:27PM (#11896651)

At SFO you can go from entrance to on-plane in 40 minutes for a transatlantic flight.

I like SFO.

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by DrScump on Monday June 13, 2016 @04:18PM (#11897226)

At SFO, the trick is getting from your origin elsewhere in the Bay Area to the entrance in the first place.

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by CalRobert on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @06:36PM (#11905891)

I found BART to make this pretty straightfoward when I lived in Berkeley.

Also, when flying to Sacramento recently I took the Norwegian Air trip from Gatwick to Oakland and then capitol corridor to Sacramento. Didn't even need to get on BART; the airport connector took me to the catwalk to Amtrak.

The only airport in the bay that seems hard to access is San Jose, which has less service anyway.

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by tlrobinson on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:10PM (#11898144)

15 minutes without traffic or 30 minutes with traffic from SF to SFO isn't bad at all.

Here's a map with travel times: http://www.trulia.com/local/94128/driving:1%7Ctransit:0%7Cpo...

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by DrScump on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:24PM (#11898234)

Move the pointer to central SF (and Trulia will assume you have instant access to the freeway). 30 minutes with no traffic. Not 15.

But anyway, I was talking about the entrance.

30 minutes would barely get you from central SF to the airport ramp with a mostly empty 101.

But that's not the problem. Getting parked and a shuttle in will be at least 45 minutes, if you get a shuttle faster than normal.

Taking BART to SFO entrance: check the schedules. You'll be surprised how much of the day it doesn't run at all.

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by Swizec on Monday June 13, 2016 @07:29PM (#11898612)

This must be why I always Uber to the airport. On normal days (not big travel day like Thanksgiving time) you can get from SoMa to Standing Outside SFO With Luggage Out of Trunk in about 30min during the day. I've seen as low as 15min at night.

I may have always gotten lucky and when I actually plan the trip I try to go for more like 45min travel-to-airport-time. Just to be sure.

On Thanksgiving or such, the off-ramp from 101 to SFO takes about an hour. That's crazy.

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