I used to need to be in a city every other week that was only a 1.5 hour flight.

I decided to see if driving might get me there in comparable time if I compared when I closed my front door to when I opened the door of my destination.

I was surprised to find that the time it took as almost the same. That's because flying requires:

* start drive to airport (45 minutes) * park and get on a shuttle (15 minutes) * get to gate (30 minutes) * wait (60 minutes because I'm early by an hour) * fly (1:45) * taxi to gate (5-45 minutes) * walk to light rail stop (10 minutes) * ride light rail too stop (45 minutes) * walk to destination (15 minutes)

Door to door flying: about 6 hours

Driving:

* start driving (6 hours) * fuel stop (15 minutes) * park (15 minutes) * arrive

If I didn't obey speed limits, I could cut an hour or more off that 6 hours.

That said, I still preferred flying. Hard to take a nap or space out while driving for 6 hours.