"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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A coast-to-coast flight originating from Spokane? Spokane is in eastern
Washington, not far from the Idaho border. Must be nearly 400 miles from
the Pacific coast.


My mistake. The author called the flight "trans-continental" and
"across America" -- which my brain translated into "coast-to-coast"
for some reason...


I think most people would agree with you. I'd say a "trans-continental"
flight that started in Spokane and proceeded east failed to transit about
400 miles worth of continent.