Texan Eagle
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If I want to travel from San Jose to Seattle, Amtrak's Coast Starlight takes 24 hours, direct flight takes 2 hr 05 min. So, train takes 24/2 = 12 times as much time as a flight.
So, counting this way, between which city pairs is the time taken by Amtrak to time taken by direct flight ratio the highest? Without going into splitting hair and nitpicking, I will leave with very lenient criteria-
1) the city pair selected should have at least one direct Amtrak service and at least one direct flight for comparison. No connections, Thruway buses etc.
2) Select Amtrak station and airport city with same name, or similar names. Los Angeles-LAX, San Jose-SJC, Can't use Maricopa-PHX because the train is not going to Phoenix and flight is not from Maricopa.
3) Just to avoid too much calculation for cities at short distances, let's keep a minimum distance between cities = 100 miles.
PS: Yes I know air travel involves time for check-in security etc etc, please don't pull that into the game here, I am asking this purely for trivia and fun, not to compare or criticize anything.
So, counting this way, between which city pairs is the time taken by Amtrak to time taken by direct flight ratio the highest? Without going into splitting hair and nitpicking, I will leave with very lenient criteria-
1) the city pair selected should have at least one direct Amtrak service and at least one direct flight for comparison. No connections, Thruway buses etc.
2) Select Amtrak station and airport city with same name, or similar names. Los Angeles-LAX, San Jose-SJC, Can't use Maricopa-PHX because the train is not going to Phoenix and flight is not from Maricopa.
3) Just to avoid too much calculation for cities at short distances, let's keep a minimum distance between cities = 100 miles.
PS: Yes I know air travel involves time for check-in security etc etc, please don't pull that into the game here, I am asking this purely for trivia and fun, not to compare or criticize anything.
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