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When your first-class 'flight' turns out to be a bus ride

T_R_Oglodyte

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Using the bus and avoiding the land side mess that is OHare sounds like a good idea to me. Plus the bus ride is probably faster than taxing from the north most runway to the L gates.
 
Ok I have to weigh in.

I live near South Bend and fly out of it regularly. This thing has been promoted a lot. It’s all very clear. I don’t know what kind of rock you’re living under if you didn’t know how this was gonna play out.
 
TolmiePeak said:
Using the bus and avoiding the land side mess that is OHare sounds like a good idea to me. Plus the bus ride is probably faster than taxing from the north most runway to the L gates.
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There are other pros as well. The bus is a lot more comfortable and pleasant than a plane. Plus you don’t have to handle any bags after you check in at SBN. No gate checking a roller board bc the regional jets can’t fit them in the overhead. And less chance if missing that connection at ORD bc you aren’t waiting on a plane coming from somewhere else to arrive at SBN.
 
Too bad they couldn't upgrade the rail line so the train would be a one hour trip.
 
Sounds like a similar thing that Air Canada has been doing in Ontario for a while and is now expanding the service. It started out for passengers that live in the Kingston/Belleville area (about 175 miles east of Toronto) who were flying with AC out of YYZ. They had the option to get on a coach bus at the Kingston airport (not an international airport but has lots of cheap parking) and be driven to YYZ as part of their ticket. There were only 2 trips in each direction per day, but those that took advantage of the service said it was well worth leaving home an hour or so ahead of when they would have left if driving themselves. One passenger said he was able to take an Uber to the Kingston airport and save his gas and parking costs from driving to YYZ. The service was so popular AC is expanding it to other airports to the north and west of Toronto.

~Diane
 
I have used a similar service between Newark and Allentown on United, but they discontinued it last year. I believe they also had it between Denver and Breckenridge and Denver and Fort Collins, both of which have been discontinued as well.
 
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