Direct Flights

Last year when we went back to Canada in the summer, we had to fly Chongqing-Shanghai, Shanghai-Vancouver, Vancouver-Toronto, and our home town of Sudbury is still a 4 hour and many minutes drive north after that. Total travel time was about 26 hours straight without a rest. Passing customs in Vancouver was an ordeal in spite of the smell of Starbucks coffee and Tim Horton donuts permeating the air (or was it the other way around!). 
 
To worsen the trip, we almost did not even get started, as a tropical storm hit Shanghai the day we were to leave, and we got delayed 4 days until we could rebook. 
 
Now, there is a direct flight from Beijing to Toronto, and I love how it arrives an hour and a half after it takes off (thanks to the wonders of crossing 12 time zones). Leave in the afternoon, arrive in the afternoon, and you will soon forget where that day disappeared to (in actuality, somewhere over the arctic). 
 
That will be nice!

last modified Jun 29, 2006 at 22:52

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