Tom-D
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SLC is a Delta hub, they fly this as a non-stop for $261.60. The outbound friday night leaves at 6:05pm, the return on sunday night at 9.46pm.
A 9:46pm departure leaves you enough time for an early dinner in Salt Lake, btdt.
If he tries to do this in a bugsmasher on a schedule, he will figure out pretty soon that wed afternoon is not an accepted time to show up for work if you are scheduled to show up on monday. In the best case scenario, after trying this for about 3 trips, he will have a nice plane up in Salt Lake to spend time with his wife on the weekends. In the more likely worst case scenario he is going to push the weather and end up in a hillside, dead.
Very valid point, it happened last night, 3 dead in Snoqualmnie pass skud running the pass, and hit the wall.
From podunk to podunk in the flatlands up to 500nm, GA is competitive for a weekend commute. Between two major airports and with icy rocks in between, anyone who tells him that sneaking through the valleys in a bugsmasher at night is a viable alternative to the airlines is not being honest.
I'm not telling them to do that, merely telling the posters here there are alternatives to going V2 and V4 out of Seattle, when you say that Portland east is skud running in a valley tells me you never looked at a chart for the area.