with the new change in travel times it is no longer reaistic as in RL to travel from PH to NY it takes just under 5 hours by car so now apparently a flight only takes 2 hours off of that time. perhaos there could be a car or towncar option available to travel between cities when your flight timer is "Pending" maybe itll be available when half of you flight timer has been used and maybe itll just reset your flight timer

I think its because its the 30s planes were slower and things were getting developed not really complete as they are today and Also Jetlag... who wants to get on one flight to get on another a couple minutes later

The current flight times are actually A LOT faster than actual flights were back then.

A passenger plane in the 30s would take 25 hours to get from NY to LA. Cars back then would have taken even longer too.

still why all of a sudden double the flight time from ph to ny? i could see 2 hours but not double (3 hours)

the average flight speed in the 30's was actually 185mph and with ny to ph being 295 miles it would take approxamitely 1.5 hours in a dc-3 to travel it

Well part of the point I made was that the flight times currently aren't meant to represent reality.

The "sister cities" (NY+PH, CH+DT, LA+LV) all have flight times of three hours between them, flying to the centre from the coast is 6 hours, and flying coast to coast is 12 hours.

They aren't meant to be based on reality, they are meant to make each 'pair' of cities equal.

why not use a forumla for flight times based on a calulation based on the km/miles traveled as opposed to a set time?

example (flight time = distance / air speed of plane from era)

that formula actually lines up to what your going for to keep the flight times almost equal as well as keeping them almost what they were

with that forumla ph to ny is 1.5 hours and ny to LV is 13 hours (these cities used purely as example cities)

of course tripleduce, To get to the airport, check in, fly, collect baggage, and get out of the airport is likely about 3 hours philly to NY.

why not use a forumla for flight times based on a calulation based on the km/miles traveled as opposed to a set time?

I think I already answered that when I said:  "They aren't meant to be based on reality, they are meant to make each 'pair' of cities equal."

driving from Philadelphia to nyc does not take 5 hrs. it's like a 1.5 hour drive barring traffic. unless i misunderstood what you were saying. 

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The first successful North American transcontinental trip by automobile took place in 1903 and was piloted by H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker, accompanied by a dog named Bud. The trip was completed using a 1903 Winton Touring Car, dubbed “Vermont” by Jackson. The trip took a total of 63 days between San Francisco and New York, costing US$8,000. The total cost included items such as food, gasoline, lodging, tires, parts, other supplies, and the cost of the Winton.

The average top speed for an Average car in the late 20's to early 30s was around 50-60 MPH. Assuming you could achieve that speed. Highways weren't overly abundant, and the majority of roads still weren't paved until 1936. Although 12 states still had no speed limits as of 1930, the usual speed limit in tows was somewhere between 20 and 30 MPH.