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    "headline": "A Los Angeles tech worker flies to her San Francisco office up to 10 times a month",
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    "articleBody": "Angelique Khieu leaves home in Los Angeles at about 4:30 a.m., catches a 6 a.m. flight and is usually at her San Francisco desk by 8:30. The 26-year-old works in tech sales for a company that wants staff in the office three days a week, and for the first half of 2026 she flew the route almost every week, taking six to 10 flights a month. She described the routine in an interview published on Saturday, October 17, after a TikTok of her commute drew close to 700,000 views. The numbers behind a four-hour commute Door to desk, her morning takes about four hours: driving to the airport, security, roughly 90 minutes gate to gate, then public transit straight to the office. She credits TSA PreCheck and CLEAR for keeping the stretch from the terminal doors to the gate short. Set that against the national picture. The Census Bureau’s commuting release of March 2013 put the average one-way trip to work at 25.5 minutes, so a 240-minute morning works out to about 9.4 times the typical commute. The same release counted nearly 600,000 full-time “megacommuters” traveling at least 90 minutes and 50 miles each way. Khieu clears both bars before she has had her first meeting. The flight count is lower than it sounds. Khieu keeps a place in both cities and often stays over in the Bay Area to cover consecutive office days, so a typical office week can be a single round trip. At that rate, six to 10 flights a month means three to five round trips. Why some hybrid workers choose it Researchers at the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies count someone as a supercommuter when the one-way trip tops 50 miles or 90 minutes, and found that about 4.5% of workers in the Los Angeles region spend over 90 minutes getting to work. One of their explanations fits Khieu closely: for remote and hybrid staff, an occasional long trip can cost the same as, or less than, a short commute made five days a week. Most of the region’s long-distance commuters are making a different trade, though. The UCLA team found hotspots in places such as Lancaster-Palmdale and Perris-Temecula, where households accept long drives for a chance to own a home. Khieu’s trade is about career rather than housing. She said she did not want to uproot her personal life, but saw the San Francisco job as the right professional move. She is not the only person on the shuttle, either. Fellow regulars began to recognize her, she said, and so did the flight attendants. For a far shorter airborne commute, see our piece on LeBron James’s helicopter trips between New York and Philadelphia. The common mistake: assuming the plane always wins The flight is only fast when it leaves. Khieu said the hardest part is booking: “nine times out of 10, I’m booking my flights the day before I leave.” Once, a delay became a cancellation and the next available flight was not until 3 p.m. the following day. She and four other stranded passengers rented a car and drove for seven hours, and she reached home with 30 minutes to spare before an 8 a.m. meeting. That is the real backup plan on this corridor. Driving or taking an intercity bus between the two cities takes six to eight hours, and there is no direct train: the only direct rail link from Oakland to Los Angeles takes eleven hours and runs once a day. The pairing is one of the busiest domestic air corridors in the country, averaging 132 scheduled flights daily, yet Khieu notes that some airlines run only one nonstop back to LAX, so a late cancellation can leave you stuck overnight. For anyone weighing a similar setup, her story points to three practical checks: Know the last nonstop of the day on your airline, and which other carriers fly the same route. Have a fallback ready for a cancellation, whether a hotel, a friend’s sofa or a rental car shared with other passengers. Price a bed at the far end. Overnight stays are what turn three office days into one round trip instead of three. What could change the math California’s high-speed rail project is required by the 2008 ballot measure that authorized it to link the two cities nonstop in no more than 2 hours 40 minutes. The full line is not yet funded. The first section, between Merced and Bakersfield in the Central Valley, covers 171 of the 494 miles planned for Phase 1 and is projected to carry its first paying passengers in 2032. Further reading UCLA Lewis Center: The equity questions behind Los Angeles's supercommuters US Census Bureau: Megacommuters (2013) Wikipedia: California High-Speed Rail Image: Chris Rycroft, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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