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Originally Posted by jmt18325
You honestly wouldn't need to spend more than a few minutes in each airport, especially if you had carry on. It would still be shorter, as it is a 6 hour drive.
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Originally Posted by Policy Wonk
It is an eight hour drive, many people would bother flying that.
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Originally Posted by bulliver
I think those two cities may be farther apart than you realize. It's just under 600km from DT to DT. Plus, and no offense to SK and MB folks, but the drive is boring as all hell. I've done it a few times. I'd much rather take a 45 minute flight then spend 6-7 hours in a car.
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You guys should try actually living out around that part of the country before commenting. I have, and I've done this particular drive many times. 8 hours? Maybe if you drive like grandpa. Google has DT to DT pegged at 571km. At 110 (and you can go a fair bit faster once you're on the actual highway), that's 5 hours. Most people clock it in 5.5-6 including the in-city portions), but it's a real sport out there to see if you can cut that down some. I've done it in under 5, door to door, without speeding tooooo badly.
Every domestic carrier requires you to be checked in something like 30 minutes before a flight (they start boarding at t-30 after all). So assuming you can teleport to the airport from your house, and teleport to your final destination in Regina, that's still more than a "few minutes" in the airport. Unless your starting point and end point are both pretty close to the airport itself, that's easily 30-60 minutes of "getting to/from the airport" time. Add in 45 mins or so for the flight, and you're looking at a MINIMUM of 2 hours. More likely longer - you have to find a place to park at the airport and/or deal with taxis and/or friends dropping off/picking up. I have a hard time imagining this flight taking less than 3 hours all told, door to door. Most travel time on short haul flights isn't actually in the air, it's all the other bullshit we're subjected to. Early check in times, security lines, waiting for assholes to deal with their maximum allowed carry-on so that we have to load the plane for 30 minutes solid...
Anyway, it's a lot shorter drive than y'all seem to realize. And flying takes a lot longer than it used to. The drive IS boring as shit though, I'll give it that.