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Re: Newbie question

email@hidden wrote:

>Consider this: an airplane travels *much* faster than a car. However, if
>you wanted to go across town, you'd use a car, not an airplane.

As a practical analogy, very few cities have multiple airports with flights
scheduled between them. However, there are quite a few cities with
airports and scheduled flights between them that have roughly the same
total elapsed travel time as driving by car between the cities. For
example, it's a 2-hour drive between Phoenix and Tucson. There are
scheduled flights between Phoenix and Tucson, too. However, when you take
into account all the airport check-in, screening, and embarking delays (and
the reverse at the destination), even an instantaneous flight-time
(aircraft doors closed to doors open) is unlikely to beat a 2-hour overall
drive time. Many cities on the Atlantic coast have similar situations.
It's frequently faster to drive or take the train than it is to fly.

Long-haul or short-haul, context is crucial.

-- GG
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