Originally Posted by Winston

If by “commute” you mean “commute by air”, then the answer is that no one, and I mean NO ONE, commutes to SFO from SMF. It’s just too delayed and unreliable, and even as bad as the traffic is driving, at least you know it’s going to happen. We have a ton of guys who drive in from the Sac area, but it’s all by car.

RNO-SFO is a very popular commute, but most guys have a Plan B of just driving down the hill the whole way.

If you’re somewhere beetween SMF and RNO (as I am), I’d just drive. I can do it in under 2 hours, but in traffic it’s 3:30 easy. I bid to start with a red eye and usually get done around 10 PM so traffic is a non-issue, but other than those times you’re gonna hurt.

With over two decades left at this gig and the traffic only getting worse, I’m seriously contemplating commuting by Cessna out of my local strip and Ubering up from San Carlos.