{"id":3056,"date":"2007-10-19T08:48:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T08:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2007-10-19T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T08:48:34","slug":"on_air_travel_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3056","title":{"rendered":"On Air Travel: China vs the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/beijingshanghai_dcboston_compa.php\">James Fallows<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Three weeks ago my wife and I flew China Eastern from Beijing to Shanghai and, thanks to traffic miracles on both ends and the absence of the usual Beijing departure hold, made it door-to-door in about four hours.<br \/>\nToday I flew US Airlines from Washington to Boston, a more-or-less comparable route, in just about the same door-to-door time. One difference: Beijing-Shanghai is more than half again as far (576 nautical miles, vs. 343). Another: often I&#8217;ve been loaded onto a 747 for the Chinese route, versus the Airbus 319 that is standard for US Air. But here&#8217;s the general compare\/contrast rundown:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/beijingshanghai_dcboston_compa.php\">James Fallows<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Three weeks ago my wife and I flew China Eastern from Beijing to Shanghai and, thanks to traffic miracles on both ends and the absence of the usual Beijing departure hold, made it door-to-door in about four hours.<br \/>\nToday I flew US Airlines from Washington to Boston, a more-or-less comparable route, in just about the same door-to-door time. One difference: Beijing-Shanghai is more than half again as far (576 nautical miles, vs. 343). Another: often I&#8217;ve been loaded onto a 747 for the Chinese route, versus the Airbus 319 that is standard for US Air. But here&#8217;s the general compare\/contrast rundown:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}