Sunday, August 09, 2009

Tommy Boy and flight patterns

Watched Tommy Boy on Comedy Central recently. Funny movie that I've seen a few times before.

Most of the movie is set in the Midwest and much of it seems to have been actually filmed there. There is a scene, however, that makes no "geographic sense." One of the characters who is supposedly living and working in the Sandusky OH area goes to an airport in the Sandusky area and needs to get a flight to Cuyahoga Falls (OH). (Let's ignore the fact that you wouldn't say you'd need a flight to Cuyahoga Falls - it's a suburb of Cleveland. You know, the really big city near Cuyahoga Falls that actually has an airport.) The gate attendant tells the character that there are no direct flights to Cuyahoga Falls - all those flights go through Columbus.

Ok, this makes a lot of sense. First, it would be a HELLUVA lot faster to simply rent a car and drive from Sandusky to Cleveland, err, Cuyahoga Falls. But, no, the character instead bothers to drive to either Toledo's or Detroit's airport (the only airports of any size near Sandusky). To try to catch a flight to Cleveland that is routed through Columbus. From Toledo or Detroit. It's like flying from LA to San Francisco via San Diego.

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