United, Southwest and Delta have announced they will be reducing flights amid continuing government shutdown
United, Southwest and Delta airlines began cancelling flights for Friday in compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration’s directive that will see reductions in flights at 40 major airports from Friday to help address air traffic controller shortage safety concerns as a result of the government shutdown.
The Associated Press published the list after airline regulators identified “high-volume markets” where the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says air traffic must be reduced by 4% by 6am ET on Friday, a move that would force airlines to cancel thousands of flights and create a cascade of scheduling issues and delays at some of the nation’s largest airports. The FAA is also imposing restrictions on space launches but not imposing any cuts on international flights.
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If one wants to travel from San Francisco to New York City starting on Friday, November 14th, as a single adult:
¹ Assuming ~8 hours a day driving time and Google Maps’ estimate of 44 hours driving time. Does not include hotel fees and fuel.
For a lot of people, if they can’t fly, they’re probably going to be better off just skipping their travel.
Nice chart. Always good to note that you can’t possibly drive or take a train these distances for the price of flying. People complain about the level of service airlines offer and have some sort of nostalgic views regarding past air travel luxuries, but these are “cattle car” prices, so we get cattle car service.
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To be fair, one could get business class/first class service. Not worth it for me, but that’d improve the experience a bit.
Certainly would. But as you say, it has a price.
How the fuck is a train slower than a bus over that distance?
And twice as expensive?
I would expect trains to be more expensive than buses. Maintaining rails, stations and trains is more expensive than maintaining roads, bus stops and buses. But in return I’d expect it to be quite a lot faster and more comfortable. A regular slow train where I live travels at 75mph - normal intercity trains travel at 125mph.
More direct route, compare a map of the Interstates to a map of just the rails and you’ll see it pretty well, that’s not even accounting for the non interstate highways and biways.
Imagine having a monopoly and only ever investing your profits into executive pay. Only investing in maintenance because the wheels will literally fall off and no preventative maintenance.