Originally Posted by
bigdaddie
Hawthorne airport, KHHR. It's a block and half from the green line train, one stop and a quick bus ride, you're at LAX terminal. It's $30/night to park ($15 for airline crew members) and they waive the ramp fee if you buy 10 gal of gas. It's not cheap but very convenient. I used to have a tiedown at HHR and park my airport car on the tiedown, but it turns out to be way cheaper and faster to use the FBO.
It takes me north of 5hrs to drive to LAX with light traffic and just over an hour to fly my plane. I can drive to the closest airport that serves LAX (no Delta or connection service) but I think they’re down to 2 flights a day; there were like 10 or more when we moved here.
Expensive, yes, but I much prefer to suck on my cup of coffee for an hour on autopilot than deal with the idiots on the road for 5 or more hours each way.
If you don't mind me asking, roughly where do you fly in from? We have been looking at leaving VA, and while the Seniority in NYC is nice, GA in winter is to put it nicely, a **** show barring the expense (de-ice, need a FIKI plane a lot etc)
As it is, pre-COVID I was sitting reserve at home knowing under the old (now new again) commute rules if I didn't get on the late RJ to NYC, I had to drive and there was maybe one day a week where the reduced flights (Saturday I think) there was 2-3 hours where a min call = just drive. (5-7 hours to NYC airports for me)
Positive space/no backup COVID I had a 2-3 hour "no mans land" window, but never had to drive it.
Now? We've lost our 50 seater service, used to have 13 flights a day on DL RJs... Plus another 7 or so between American and United. Now? 8 on a good day. And nothing after 1645. I was entertaining the GA commute again.