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

[T_R_Oglodyte]

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

 

[TolmiePeak]

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.

 

[Cornell]

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.

 

[Cornell]

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.

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.

 

[TolmiePeak]

Too bad they couldn't upgrade the rail line so the train would be a one hour trip.

 

[Cornell]

Too bad they couldn't upgrade the rail line so the train would be a one hour trip.

Don’t even get me started.

 

[moonstone]

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

 

[sponger76]

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.

 

[TolmiePeak]

Don’t even get me started.

Oops.. Too late. Sorry. Maybe we can get the former mayor from South Bend to work on it. He loves rail transportation.

 

[1Kflyerguy]

There used to be a similar service out of San Jose with United, which would bus you to and from San Francisco International Airport.

 

[davidvel]

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

Scary that this dumbo is an engineer. It is quite clear when you book it is a bus.

And no, there is no first class on this bus, not sure where the garbage headline came from.

 

[Cornell]

Scary that this dumbo is an engineer. It is quite clear when you book it is a bus.

And no, there is no first class on this bus, not sure where the garbage headline came from.

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Exactly. And only realized when she was on the highway that it wasn’t a flight to O’Hare? None of this makes sense.

 

[Ken555]

When I was searching for a flight to Baltimore earlier this year, I found numerous bus options from nearby airports (especially when I was considering a few more days in Philadelphia or New York). Interestingly, some of those bus/flight trips were much less expensive than a non-stop alone to Philadelphia, etc.


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[davidvel]

Exactly. And only realized when she was on the highway that it wasn’t a flight to O’Hare? None of this makes sense.

The whole story is meant for clicks like most. Likely, she was connecting through SBN to Chicago from somewhere else on a 1st class flight, and was too clueless to look at her itinerary that showed the last leg was on a bus.