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Re:"Australian Exceptionalism": best performing and fairest ... by brc on Friday December 09, 2011 @06:23PM (#3336129)
Flight time from Honolulu to LA is less than the flight time from Melbourne to Perth.

Perth is the most geographically isolated city in the world.

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Re:"Australian Exceptionalism": best performing and fairest ... by rdouble on Friday December 09, 2011 @06:25PM (#3336141)
It's an hour longer from Honolulu to LA (or vice versa) than from Melbourne to Perth.

The flight from Perth to Melbourne is only 3 hours and 30 minutes, less than flying from LA to Chicago.

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Re:"Australian Exceptionalism": best performing and fairest ... by brc on Friday December 09, 2011 @09:15PM (#3336666)
Melbourne-Perth flights are routinely > 4 hours Sydney-Perth flights are routinely > 5 hours

Hawaii - LA flight times are routinely > 5 1/2 hours

I was wrong.

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Re:"Australian Exceptionalism": best performing and fairest ... by usaar333 on Saturday December 10, 2011 @12:39AM (#3337043)
Out of curiosity, why are you comparing Perth to Melbourne rather than the closer Adelaide? Flights are 3 hours going east and 3:20 going west between those cities.
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