A man commutes six hours daily to get to work

Von Badinski leaves at 5:00 am to get to work by 08:30 and leaves by 17:00 to reach home by 21:00

A mechanical engineer and co-founder of a San Francisco-based tech company commutes six hours daily from Los Angeles – and most of it is by plane, reported BBC.

Five days a week, he starts his journey at 5:00 am; a 15-minute to drive to Bob Hope Burbank airport for a 90-minute flight to Oakland, located 568 km North West. He parks close to the departure building of Surf Air, a California-based airline that offers unlimited flights on a single engine turboprop plane, for a monthly fee.



Curt Von Badinski pays $2,300 to take return flights from Burbank to Oakland. He usually boards the plane within minutes after the background check, skipping most of the security procedures.

He claims that the second leg of his journey is more environment friendly, he keeps a plug-in hybrid vehicle at Oakland airport to drive to San Francisco. He knows that his flights come with a significant carbon footprint, he tries to curb that with the hybrid vehicle.

A commute as long as this one in a region where there are massive discrepancies in the climate, poses additional challenges. It can be humid in Los Angeles, but San Francisco is likely to be cooler at that point in time. “The first several months that I was doing this commute, I was always caught off guard,” he says. “The first several months that I was doing this commute, I was always caught off guard,” he tells BBC.



Von Badinski gets to the office by 08:30 and leaves by 17:00, allowing time for busy traffic on his drive back to Oakland airport to catch his return flight at 19:15. He is home in Burbank shortly after 21:00.

“The way I justify a six-hour commute is having the ability to have all the things that I want," he explains.

“I am always excited to start the day."