Want to have fun - get a PPL
Want to travel - use Southwest .
I travel weekly between S.Cal and the Bay Area a much more benign route than you are suggesting and I would not dream of trying it to a schedule in a light aircraft for safety reasons even if expense was not a consideration.
Admittedly I am a pretty cautious person but it seems to me that for regular PPLs (I am closing on 500 hours) that thinking of flying as a means of transport is the first step on the road to ruin.
Last edited by sherburn2LA; 10th November 2012 at 04:58.