The lure of Los Angeles has long been its quality of life. But for the denizens of Silicon Beach, aircraft represent the ultimate hack — a philosopher’s stone that makes rest out of work.
By the time her Tesla screeched to a stop outside the terminal, Jessica Mah was already 20 minutes late for her flight to San Francisco.
“Flying is a weird combination of art and science, but there’s a lot more science to it than art,” said Charath Ranganathan, vice president of the Aero Assn. of Caltech, a flying club dominated by engineers. “There’s a certain precision that comes in with flying that a lot of the tech people understand and enjoy.
“A lot of them don’t really do people,” said Seosamh Somers, president of Angel City Flyers Inc., a flight school and aircraft rental company in Long Beach. “Some are a little socially inept, so the idea of going to an airliner and being herded through by TSA — it’s like, no way.” The rental market has also made flying more attractive to millennials, who shy from ownership, Somers said. But at $2,000 an hour, rental jets are far from affordable.
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