On: "Australian Exceptionalism": best performing and f...

[usaar333]

I'm pretty sure Honolulu takes the spot for most isolated large city. Perth is a mere few days drive from some large cities (Adelaide). In Honolulu you are stuck on an island 2300 miles from the mainland.

[brc → usaar333]

Flight time from Honolulu to LA is less than the flight time from Melbourne to Perth.

Perth is the most geographically isolated city in the world.

[rdouble → brc]

It's an hour longer from Honolulu to LA (or vice versa) than from Melbourne to Perth.

The flight from Perth to Melbourne is only 3 hours and 30 minutes, less than flying from LA to Chicago.

[brc → rdouble]

Melbourne-Perth flights are routinely > 4 hours Sydney-Perth flights are routinely > 5 hours

Hawaii - LA flight times are routinely > 5 1/2 hours

I was wrong.

[usaar333 → brc]

Out of curiosity, why are you comparing Perth to Melbourne rather than the closer Adelaide? Flights are 3 hours going east and 3:20 going west between those cities.