> Vector’s board convinced Lore to return as president and CEO. She began commuting over with an 800-mile round trip every day from her home in San Francisco.
How is that even possible? Two flights every day?
How is that even possible? Two flights every day?
It would have been pretty expensive unless she or the company negotiated some kind of discount with the airline but lots of people today quite regularly commute 2 hours or more one-way in their car or on the train, so...
The last time I remember it being that easy was probably 9/13/2001. An ex-girlfriend was trying to get to DC from MSP because her father worked in the Pentagon and she hadn't heard from him. She called me from the airport in a panic at 2AM asking for help because her credit card was declined. I drove to the airport, groggily handed the ticket agent my card and drove back home. She was probably on the plane before I got home.
Then a few weeks later came all the TSA crap...
The other poster mentions that you could smoke on the plane (in the back rows) and that was true, disgustingly enough.
And let's not even talk about the departure lounges in the airports.
"Biden's apparently traveled over 2 million miles, the equivalent of four years of his life, on Amtrak."
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32363173/joe-biden-amt...
Amtrak is quite slow. Jetliners are ~4-8x faster.