No, but it does include the time to get yourself and your vehicle on to and off of the train that carries vehicles through the Channel Tunnel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeShuttle

Ye, I've been travelling on it since the first week it opened. But if you were redirected and had to fend for yourself you would need to book ahead on a tunnel or boat, hire a car to drive from France to Coquelles - find somewhere to drop the car, hire another car in the UK. All assuming you land in Paris in the morning early enough to do all this.

Yes, all of which could be done in hours less time than it would take to get from Atlanta to any comparable airport.

Consider the amount of train/ferry transit between London and Paris. That doesn't exist in the US. Rental car companies don't keep that much extra stock on hand, and really do not love renting cars for inter-state one-way journeys.

I categorically reject that getting from Atlanta to London with ATL nonoperational would be either faster or easier than getting from London to Atlanta with LHR nonoperational.

Fair enough if you categorically reject it. That's good enough for me.

Thanks for admitting he's right.

Well given what they (you know it's a he?) actually wrote...

Then your comment about rowing across the sea is idiotic.

The airlines that redirected flights to Paris arranged buses to London.

Having thought about it you're correct. Even if you over inflate your tyres it won't provide enough buoyancy even for the smallest Euro-car.

An alternative reading to it 'being idiotic' is that it was clearly an exaggeration to prompt some critical thinking about the original claim.

What critical thinking? The train from London to Paris is barely above 2 hours. Why on earth would you drive if you’re in hurry?

I was replying to "It is a six hour drive from Heathrow to Paris"

Well yes, but I’m just curious in what way was the original comment supposed to promote critical thinking

There's a train between the UK and France. It carries cars.

That I use regularly to actually drive from no-too-far from LHR to Paris and back. It's a thing I actually do.

And I can tell you, it might be theoretically in Google Maps land to do the journey in 6 hours, but IRL in this scenario it won't happen. Actual empirical evidence.

The Eurostar train from London to Paris takes only 2.5 hours. Much faster than driving.

I brought up driving to illustrate the incorrectness of the original claim, the person I replied to did not mention driving. The person you replied to is correct to bring up the EuroStar option.

By the way, the snide remarks you add to the end to each of your comments may be better suited for a place like Reddit or TruthSocial. The community standards guidelines for HN can be found at the bottom of the page.

I was replying to "It is a six hour drive from Heathrow to Paris."

I live close enough to LHR to notice the replacement of Boeing/Airbus with Cessna/Pipers from local airfields in the sky today. I also regularly drive to and/from Paris.

It is a six hour drive. But ONLY if you have your car ready, have booked a crossing ahead of time (otherwise you might want to slap another half day on those times), make no stops, you don't end up in a queue at UK customs (1 hour+ not infrequent occurrance). Don't happen to have your car sitting at CDG waiting for you? You'll have to hire one, but you'll be unlikely to be able to take that to the UK so you're then finding somewhere to drop that off and somehow cross as a foot passenger which you can't do on Le Shuttle...

Point being, cross-border travel throws up all of these hurdles which you simply don't have in the US example.

It's also less agro