{"id":6559,"date":"2015-10-06T04:44:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T10:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2015-10-06T04:44:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T10:44:54","slug":"the-rise-of-the-outrageously-long-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6559","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Outrageously Long Commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/10\/extreme-commuting\/408754\/?single_page=true\">MIRIAM KREININ SOUCCAR<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A few years back, David Neeleman, the founder of JetBlue Airways, left his company and launched a new airline in Brazil. The airline, Azul, flies 22 million people a year, employs 12,000 people, and is the fastest-growing carrier in the region.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;You\u2019d think running such a large, complex operation would require a move to South America. But Neeleman commutes to Azul\u2019s Sao Paulo headquarters every week from his home in Connecticut, taking the 10-hour redeye on Sunday nights and returning on Thursdays. This way, he says, he doesn\u2019t have to uproot his family of 10 kids.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;\u201cMy wife wasn\u2019t so interested in moving,\u201d said Neeleman, who recently bought TAP, Portugal\u2019s national airline and is now commuting there as well. \u201cWe had all these kids playing [American] football and lacrosse. They don\u2019t have those sports in Brazil.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIRIAM KREININ SOUCCAR: A few years back, David Neeleman, the founder of JetBlue Airways, left his company and launched a new airline in Brazil. The airline, Azul, flies 22 million people a year, employs 12,000 people, and is the fastest-growing carrier in the region.&nbsp;&nbsp;You\u2019d think running such a large, complex operation would require a move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559"}],"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=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6560,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}