luckyjune
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 2,685
Location: In the rainy, rainy WA
Jul 22, 2017 4:59:41 GMT
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Post by luckyjune on Jan 27, 2024 14:10:50 GMT
After getting off the ferry, we have a five minute drive to a small (three gates?) airport. Check in and security is a breeze. We are flying of of there on Sunday and I'm so happy to be doing so. A trip to Seatac is an hour of usually awful traffic. I'd much rather fly out of PAE!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 27, 2024 18:16:30 GMT
Google says I’m a 30 minute drive to the international airport but in reality it’s more like 45-50 minutes with good traffic and over an hour under typical conditions. There are a few small airports around too but they’re mostly for private planes.
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Post by shanniebananie on Jan 27, 2024 18:23:15 GMT
About 40 minutes away from both DFW and Love Field.
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Post by grammadee on Jan 27, 2024 18:31:03 GMT
I live about an hour away from a tiny airport that I can fly out of if I really don't want to drive. But the cost of a ticket to Calgary (90 minute flight) is as much as flying from Calgary to almost anywhere else in the world. I am about 3 hours' drive from an international airport, doorstep to Departures/Arrivals. We usually drive there the day before, then stay over at a hotel where our vehicle can be long term parked for a reasonable rate, then take the shuttle from there to the airport.
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iluvpink
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Posts: 4,291
Location: Michigan
Jul 13, 2014 12:40:31 GMT
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Post by iluvpink on Jan 27, 2024 21:02:22 GMT
We have a small international airport about fifteen miles from us. The Detroit airport which is what we usually use is about an hour away.
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Post by refugeepea on Jan 27, 2024 23:01:16 GMT
About two hours, which is fine. I haven't flown in over 20 years. I will be in April though.
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Post by wordyphotogbabe on Jan 27, 2024 23:42:33 GMT
I live less than 30 minutes from an airport but it is a small regional airport so it's twice as expensive with very little in the way of direct flights. They technically have direct flights to a dozen or so US cities but they are only once a day and not every day, either. We have booked two trips in three years specifically to one of those direct flight cities and still had to change planes once as they rebooked our flights and/or the flight was at a really rough time of day e.g. 11 pm when we were bringing 2 kiddos with us or Sunday at 5 am.
I recently flew to Boston for work from that airport and had a four hour delay leaving and a 90 minute delay returning.
I live 2 - 2 1/2 hours from four major international airports.
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Post by rahnee on Jan 28, 2024 0:58:02 GMT
We are 1 1/2 - 2hours away from our closest airport which is Melbourne.
It didn't used to bother me as we only travelled 1-2 times a year. But now DD is at University in Brisbane, we find we are doing the drive many times a year.
If traffic is bad it can take over 2 hours. There are times where DD's flight to Brisbane has been quicker than our drive home.
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Post by papersilly on Jan 28, 2024 5:49:50 GMT
I'm so close the Marine One (and two accompanying choppers) fly directly over my house when Air Force One lands at the airport.
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katybee
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Jun 25, 2014 23:25:39 GMT
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Post by katybee on Jan 28, 2024 8:26:40 GMT
I am less than 15 minutes from Santa Barbara Airport. But it’s not international. Sometimes I fly out of there. But more likely I’ll go down to LAX, because it’s much cheaper. I take the Airbus, which is a nice bus that goes from SB directly to LAX and takes about 1.5 hours.
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theshyone
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Jun 26, 2014 12:50:12 GMT
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Post by theshyone on Jan 28, 2024 13:26:44 GMT
Between 2 and 4 nothing easy.
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Post by tuva42 on Jan 28, 2024 15:31:50 GMT
I think I win. Maps says it's a 7 minute drive from my house to the terminal of our airport.
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Post by airforcemomof1 on Jan 28, 2024 18:01:46 GMT
About 15 or 20 minutes to airport.
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Post by originalvanillabean on Jan 29, 2024 4:32:07 GMT
Within an hour to either DFW or Love, but I rarely fly out of Love since we are closer to DFW.
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ellen
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Jun 30, 2014 12:52:45 GMT
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Post by ellen on Jan 29, 2024 14:21:17 GMT
I live very close to a small, regional airport and use it as much as I can. Parking is free and it’s very quick to go through security and pick up your luggage. It’s a 3.5 hour drive to get to the large airport in our state and when you factor in gas, parking, and sometimes a hotel it doesn’t really cost much more to start your trip from the local. The shortage of pilots has made it less user friendly. Our first flight of the day leaves around 11 am really limiting the connections out of the Twin Cities. There is another regional airport that is about a 75 minute drive from my house that I am using this week.
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