How often do you travel by air?

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by Hoover

What the hell is a segment?

I fly about 10 times a year. mostly in the lower 48.

Perhaps if you traveled more often you'd know what constitutes a flight segment.

[AndChiefs]

Originally Posted by DaKCMan AP

Perhaps if you traveled more often you'd know what constitutes a flight segment.

He certainly would.

[HemiEd]

Your segments don't really line up with actual flight miles for me. Are they supposed to?

Living in Chicago, virtually all of my flights are non-stop and average more than the poll segments.

Next week is non-stop to Anaheim (orange county, about 1800), then the following month non-stop to Vegas (1524 miles), then to Ft. Myers, etc.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

Your segments don't really line up with actual flight miles for me. Are they supposed to?

Living in Chicago, virtually all of my flights are non-stop and average more than the poll segments.

Next week is non-stop to Anaheim, then the following month non-stop to Vegas, then to Ft. Myers, etc.

Agreed. Living on the west side my east coast flights are long. Then again the 55 minute Vegas flights are short hops. Sounds like you're getting around...

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Agreed. Living on the west side my east coast flights are long. Then again the 55 minute Vegas flights are short hops. Sounds like you're getting around...

55 minute flights to Vegas sound appealing, is that U.S. Air?

My flights will end soon friend, but they are getting the most they can out of me before I say I am done.

Since I moved here I have tried unsuccessfully to convince these millions of people that Chicago is not in the Mid West.
A flight to NY is an hour and a half. A flight to the west coast is 4+, so I tell them they are in the mid-East and they don't like it.

[Cornstock]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

55 minute flights to Vegas sound appealing, is that U.S. Air?

My flights will end soon friend, but they are getting the most they can out of me before I say I am done.

Since I moved here I have tried unsuccessfully to convince these millions of people that Chicago is not in the Mid West.
A flight to NY is an hour and a half. A flight to the west coast is 4+, so I tell them they are in the mid-East and they don't like it.

I've been trying to convince my Chicago friends this exact same thing and they won't believe me. Not only are they geographically inarguably part of the Mid-East, there is no way you can call a Chicagoan a midwesterner from a cultural perspective.

There are other parts of Illinois that you might be able to convince me have a midwest culture, but not Chicago. I think the phrase Mid-East should be more popularized. What are we supposed to call people from rural Ohio and Indiana for instance?

[greatgooglymoogly]

Originally Posted by Cornstock

I've been trying to convince my Chicago friends this exact same thing and they won't believe me. Not only are they geographically inarguably part of the Mid-East, there is no way you can call a Chicagoan a midwesterner from a cultural perspective.

There are other parts of Illinois that you might be able to convince me have a midwest culture, but not Chicago. I think the phrase Mid-East should be more popularized. What are we supposed to call people from rural Ohio and Indiana for instance?

Depends on if you mean "rural Indiana by Lake Michigan" or "rural Indiana by the Kentucky border". Huge difference there.

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

Your segments don't really line up with actual flight miles for me. Are they supposed to?

Living in Chicago, virtually all of my flights are non-stop and average more than the poll segments.

Next week is non-stop to Anaheim (orange county, about 1800), then the following month non-stop to Vegas (1524 miles), then to Ft. Myers, etc.

I just used the average distance for my last 260 segments. Includes outliers like JFK to Tel Aviv and Houston to College Station.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by DaKCMan AP

I just used the average distance for my last 260 segments. Includes outliers like JFK to Tel Aviv and Houston to College Station.

that makes sense, thanks.

Originally Posted by Cornstock

I've been trying to convince my Chicago friends this exact same thing and they won't believe me. Not only are they geographically inarguably part of the Mid-East, there is no way you can call a Chicagoan a midwesterner from a cultural perspective.

There are other parts of Illinois that you might be able to convince me have a midwest culture, but not Chicago. I think the phrase Mid-East should be more popularized. What are we supposed to call people from rural Ohio and Indiana for instance?

Exactly, finally someone agrees with me! Ohio, Midwest, are you ****ing kidding me? When I first moved here 18 years ago, one of the advertising sales ladies welcomed me to the "Midwest" and it was on. She ended up crying.

[Cornstock]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

Exactly, finally someone agrees with me! Ohio, Midwest, are you ****ing kidding me?

I've talked to people from Ohio with the gall to tell me that they, in fact, are from the Midwest, and I (in Iowa) am from the Great Plains.

Ironically, they're saying this as they're about to get on a 50 minute flight to NYC.