Thanks. 😀

In the photo of ground zero, I can’t seem to figure what is where. We stayed only a minute’s walk from the site. Anyone know which building is the World Financial Center?

I don’t know if this helps but here’s where the footprints of the 2 towers were with north being to the left.

Last week took me to La Guardia in NYC. They were landing to the south which meant we flew up the Hudson River on the west side of Manhattan. The pictures are as follows:

1. The Statue of Liberty

2. The southern tip of Manhattan

3. Ground Zero

4. Looking back towards the south with Central Park off the wing

5. Very short final to Runway 22 at LGA

Why do people fly such short distances? By the time you have checked in for the flight and then disembarked and passed through the destination airport, wouldn’t it have taken at least 3 or 4 times as long as going by road?

Even though it’s only across town the drive time north to IAH is about 1.5 hours thanks to traffic and it’s not a straight line drive. This particular airport is very close (just down the street) from Houston-Hobby which happens to be a hub for the Low-Cost Carrier Southwest Airlines. The leg from EFD to IAH is thrown in for free to passengers to tempt them to chose to fly CAL rather than Southwest. The flight attendant said that CAL loses about $2 million a year on the IAH-EFD flights. Something they make up for by having passengers book connecting flights in IAH to other destinations. CAL use to run 737’s from IAH to HOU (Hobby) which is an even shorter distance than IAH-EFD. They pulled out of there a few years ago probably realizing that it was cheaper to fly in and out of EFD.

Once we stop flights to EFD we will be resuming flights out of Houston-Hobby but not to IAH, those flights will be to the Cleveland and Newark hubs. I guess the benefit of free tickets from the local airports isn’t cost effective anymore.