Re:Today's real life is yesterday's science fiction.
by mgkimsal on Sunday June 26, 2011 @10:24PM
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For some trips, yes. The travel to the airport and time through security and boarding are fixed. Taking a 1 hour flight from Detroit to Chicago almost isn't worth it when you can drive it in 4 hours, because you've got probably an hour to the airport and an hour of waiting around at the airport to board, then more time at the other end getting more transport to your final destination.
But those same ~2 hours prep pale in comparison to, say, LAX->SYD. :)
Re:Today's real life is yesterday's science fiction.
by noonespecial on Monday June 27, 2011 @01:45AM
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Every time I make that trip on the A380, I'm Louis CK for the whole trip. I'm going as far as I can go without starting to come back again in one night and all I have to do is sit here and eat the snacks and watch my choice of movies on the tv in my seat. Bump future.
The weird thing about flying is that the bottle neck has become the "security" measures, flight delays, and all the other time spent from leaving your home to when you actually arrive at your destination.
Speeding up all of those steps probably has even more effect on door to door travel time than reducing the amount of time the plane has to be in the air.