Resident yinzer wasn’t there because she doesn’t have a car and the airport shuttle takes an hour. Not her fault Pittsburgh built it’s airport in a different city. (In all seriousness thank you for visiting! Miles said himself Pittsburgh is the greatest city so it’s true!)
"This is considered a flightless plane. I'm considered a pilot...but they pay me like a bus driver" one of the best things ever said in a Miles in Transit review. The coughing in the background made that quote even better. I can totally picture them saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have reached cruising altitude of 6’ and will be traveling at 70mph. Estimated arrival is 58 minutes. Sit back and enjoy your flight". And then starting a Fart Bunny redemption arc and scoring just ONE....bet this gives you flashbacks from the Grab the Sushi game at EWR during Great Race to NY. But hey, at least the music they play on the bus is pretty darn good. The jazz is as smooth as butter. Southern Airways Express was founded in 2013 by Stan Little, a litigation attorney in Hernando, Mississippi. Little owned a Golden Eagle 421 which was never used by the airline. Southern's initial funding was secured by a group of unknown investors, many of whom are believed to be connected to the University of Mississippi, the alma mater of Little and co-founder Keith Sisson. The airline launched operations in June 2013, with its first flight from Olive Branch Airport near Memphis to Destin Executive Airport.
@@SamSitar the reason is Pilot shortage, it's not just American, this is going to become nationwide at some point. Just for the small trips to transport from airport to airport. United and Sun country do similar. ..
I’m not gonna lie, between this one and “Menu Shot,” I’ve put entirely too much time into the consideration of arranging them for tuba/euphonium quartet, and performing them myself.
I so love that music now. Is the first video I actually saw it on. Love the jeb reference I subscribe to him and you. He even recommended a video of yours.
It’s sad to me that this trip is still significantly faster than taking Amtrak, where you leave Boston at 6 am, transfer in Philly to the Pennsylvanian, and arrive in Pittsburgh at 8 pm, 14 hrs later
I love your humour and style of videos, keep up the good work. This is my first video of yours I've seen and I just subscribed. I watch a lot of Jeb Brooks and Dennis Bunnik etc, so it's refreshing to have a more "un-professional", humorous, and non-serious style lol.
That is jetBlue's Blueprint livery for their Embraer E190s at 1:08, and the livery made its debut in 2017. But man, I love the livery of jetBlue planes. My favorite airplane livery is the ANA A380 because it's an adorable sea turtle...what's not to love? I also like the Qantas Flying Art series (with liveries created by Aboriginal artists), British Airways World Art series (which had everything from Chinese calligraphy to Delftware), Hawaiian Airlines, Air New Zealand, Fiji Airways, and Alaska's livery. No one knows the identity of the person on the tail of Alaska planes, but some say it's Chester Seveck, a reindeer herder who once greeted incoming flights or Oliver Amouak who once had a traveling show around Alaska. That aside...this is Airbus to a whole new level 🤣. Taking an airport shuttle to a bus pretending to be a flight...what a timeline. COBUS is specifically from Wiesbaden in Hesse, Germany! The COBUS 2700S can carry up to 77 passengers! As weird as it is, I'm glad the American Airlines bus exists because it helps smaller markets that wouldn't really get any flights otherwise that are close to hubs, connect to a major hub like Philadelphia and clear security ahead of time. The people mover at Pittsburgh are APM 100s, the same ones on the Bukit Panjang LRT, Atlanta's Plane Train, Seattle's SEA Underground, and Miami Metromover. And I believe the thing at 10:04 is supposed to be for headset to communicate with the pilots!
8:25 it feels like they're using smooth jazz on this bus as the equivalent of lights on most other buses - a kind of "don't get too sucked in" deterrent that keeps you alert lol
KLM & AF has been running bus connector services between Montreal Trudeau airport and Ottawa Railway station for a while now, but they're on pretty shabby regular coaches. Nice to see at least American has a nicer coach... And because they're international flights they leave from outside the restricted area but they're timed for that
lancaster is such a nice little city for a nice day or weekend trip, me and my wife did an international food tour there earlier in the spring it was nice.
@@MilesinTransit looking forward to more videos! I just joined your patreon and am looking to get to a higher tier soon to help support! I took a bus from Syracuse to New York City recently and was ready to die. I wish I had your patience!
Sheetz is amazing I can’t believe you’d disparage the great name of Sheetz, it’s all about the variety, when I’m high and of drunk I want to wrap a taco inside a slice of pizza and drink a slushie
In Germany for quite a while now there have been some ICE trains which also have a Lufthansa flight number and can be booked as parts of iteneraries. But they are regularly scheduled trains, just with a couple seats reserved for Rail&Fly. But it’s actually a good idea, because it can be cheaper then booking the ticket separately and in case you miss your flight (or train on the way back), it’s not your problem and you don’t have to pay extra.
This is strange indeed. It's been many years since I road on a prop plane (St. Louis, MO, to Harrison, AR, with two intermediate stops) and I don't miss it, even though it was interesting. The issue with the prop planes is they have to cancel if it's bad weather. While PIT is indeed way the heck out, they do have the 28X which is fast enough and cheap if you're going to the west end, downtown or Oakland. The main issue is if you come in late at night most of the places in the post-security mall tend to be closed.
The two plugs are called GA Twin Plugs at 10:04 . As a private pilot we used them all the time in Cessna 172s I flew in during flight training. Basically you have a headset with a boom mic that has two plugs on it. Fact, one jack is slightly smaller than the other so you cannot plug them in backwards and have them work. That’s used for Intercom and in the front seats radio communications. This connection is still the standard in General Aviation. Bet that Cessna Caravan was once a GA Aircraft that was converted to airline use.
2:18 Interestingly, Cobus also is used by Copper Mountain Ski Area in Colorado to transport skiers/snowboarders from the parking area to the base areas. It's great since they are so wide.
Speaking of the Allentown Bus actually took exit 331A 476 North Allentown Scranton. At the same time it will run to Newark Airport for UA via 78 East the Landline Bus from Newark Exit 57 I-78 will then run to Philly via 476 South assuming the driver swapped from a break
10:07 that is for an aviation headset since most aircraft this small are extremely loud and the flight crew also utilize these. It is so you can talk on an intercom system in the aircraft.
10:04 And that's a jack for an aviation headset. They use two prongs, one for the microphone and one for audio, and are different than typical headphone jacks.
Sadly the PGH airport renovation is going to involve removing the people movers as they will be moving the landside terminal to be directly connected to the airside terminal. Back before 2001 you could go to the airport and just ride the people movers without a ticket, loved doing that as a kid. I'll definitely miss them. I believe they were one of the first automated trains to go into service anywhere in the world. PIT was also one of the first (if not the actual first) airport to offer free wifi in the terminal.
About 20 years ago one could book direct Air France and KLM flights from Ottawa to Paris and Amsterdam, respectively. The "flights" began with a 2-hour ride from the Ottawa VIA station to P. E. Trudeau airport in Montréal with an Air France or KLM liveried bus.
United does this from EWR to ABE (Allentown). They had IAH to BPT (Beaumont) in the past but that was discontinued. They added DEN to FNL (Fort Collins) and QKB (Breckenridge) in 2021 (by Landline as well). I miss when United had codeshare with Amtrak to service PHL and a few other towns from EWR along the NE corridor. Their friend Lufthansa is setting up similar things across the bond in Europe though. South Airways Express did a good job serving these EAS routes. I flew PIT-DUJ-BWI and connected to Amtrak to Philly to meet friends. It was a very fun ride.
I didn't know Amtrak had a codeshare with United between EWR and PHL at one point - thats super cool. Now they legit have a flight between those two airports which is so ridiculous, gotta be one of the shortest in the US. And the best part for anyone who would fly between those cities is that theyre pretty much the first flights United cancels if there is any operations issue or weather, so half the time that useless flight is delayed or cancelled and takes way longer than driving.
@@ethan02135 That hop is far from the shortest flight within US. Even MKE-ORD is shorter than this. Most shorter flights exists for some valid reasons. e.g. milk run flights in rural Alaska, island hopper from San Juan to St. Thomas. In this case, it is more about market. United flyer in Philly area who connects to most of US east or European need to take those flights if they don't want to drive to EWR or IAD. The Amtrak codeshare tracks back to the CO days. CO and later UA had a ticketing office in NY Penn station. At one point, passengers can even check their bags at Penn station for EWR flight. Sadly it did not make financial sense and they parted away. In order to compete against direct flights by AA/US, UA tend to publish extremely cheap "flights" out of ZFV (Philly station "airport" code) and you even earn 500 miles for the train segments.
I've yet to use the United bus service from FNL, despite living in the area and flying United often. There's usually a premium of ~$100 added on to the fare, unfortunately. At that price point I can have a private shuttle service pick me up and drop me off directly at my door. I'd really like to utilize the service at some point, though.
@@ethan02135 That codeshare goes back to the days of Continental. They actually funded the old Acela lounge at NY Penn Station when Acela Express was launched in 2000, hence the codeshare agreement.
I'm moving to pittsburgh in the fall for school, so this gives me some good ideas on how to get there, lol. love your enthusiasm for the city, another awesome vid!
Oh nice!! I don't have enough good things to say about Pittsburgh - if it was in a better location (like on the Northeast Corridor), it would probably be my second favorite city in the US.
my first flight as a child was in 1988 on a prop plane from ACY to PHL to catch a jet to YYZ. The 80s were a fun time when Amtrak served Atlantic City and built that nice single track and AC train station that NJT got to inherit.
Just about any large airport will have tarmac buses, especially if offering airside shuttrle between terminals. It is also used in case fo major problems where there is need to evacuate or load aircract that isn't withing wallimng distance to a gate. They have very wide doors, flat floors, o seats im order to cater to passengers with luggage. In 1987, the early RER at CDG didn't stop inside the terminals, there was such a bus shuttle service landside on airport roadways to bring people from the early train station to each terminal. These were some of the earliest "low floor" buses.
i once made a big effort trip to fly to pittsburgh and my dad was ~1 hour late picking me up because he was off picking up (not for me) a burnt almond torte (ask any yinzer about them)
Especially on the outbound trips, they should add a stop in the town - e.g. if you were flying LHR to LNS you're not particularly interested in the airport in LNS, and you've gone through immigration and everything anyway.
The weird jacks in the last plane are for aviation headset like the ones the pilots were wearing. Aviation headsets are usually extremely noise isolated and modern ones use active noise cancellation. Cause the cockpit is loud as hell the pilots wear them the entire trip and can intercom with each other, make an announcement, and use the radios with the same headset. They use them in normal commercial jets too you just don't get a plug for their circuit as a passenger.
That would be cool if they actually work on their Caravans. Then you could listen to the whole pilot-controller conversation the whole flight. Full immersion!
@@intrepidfox37 someone should just plug in audiojack headphones in the speaker socket and report what happens. I have some but am a whole continent away, Too far to do the test 😁
Lufthansa has a bus from Strasbourg (city centre) to Frankfurt. It's actually pretty inconvenient (takes a lot more time than taking the train to Charles de Gaulle or even Frankfurt airport, leaves impossibly early), however it gives you access to interesting fares transfering in Frankfurt because it directly competes with flights from Strasbourg or whatever deal Air France has going on with the TGV to CDG near Paris. Unfortunately though you actually have to be on it, which is really difficult if you don't actually live in Straßburg but in Germany...
Good use of the word diegetic, and I appreciate the banter from the "flightless plane pilot." (And it is a "special livery" on the JetBlue plane, Boston only, been around since '17 - strange how many JetBlue liveries are Boston exclusive considering it's "New York's Hometown Airline.")
Trust an airline to make boarding a bus as miserable an experience as possible. The dou le jack in the prop plane was for headphones. Old style like the pilot uses.
Lancaster airport has FAA subsidized flights to BWI in Baltimore that are Cheap. Left over from the deregulation of airlines so some towns got thrown a bone.
Have you ever been to NYC transit museum I think you will enjoy the transit history there I take a lot of friends from out of state and overseas there . As someone who always had a interest in history I like it
Video idea find a local train line and you have to find the most interesting thing you can do within a mile of each stop. Then rank them and if you would make the effort to get off at that stop if you don’t have to.
hi miles! Glad to see you're doing more aviation videos! Keep up the amazing content and more AATR! I love just watching your videos and vibing! Also First!
Been on only a couple of Cobuses in my life, they can really pack in people. They basically have a monopoly on airport-specialized buses, but I do wonder if Cobus ever tried entering the actual public transit market.
I thought it was funny that Lufthansa offers "flight" connections complete with flight numbers that are just operated on Deutsche Bahn (like a flight from Houston to Düsseldorf is a flight to Frankfurt then an ICE to Düsseldorf), but a BUS?
At least that is just a normal train ticket and they don't make you do an overly complicated boarding procedure. Head to the air rail terminal, on to the station and train and off you are. Takes about 10 minutes
I loved when that was a thing. Like, I wish it had kept going. That was such a blessed couple of days where my entire Twitter timeline was just a bunch of deranged Good Doctor clips. Incredible.
I watched the end of this video on 0.25x speed just to see that message lol. If you're not able to catch it, I got you: it says "In case there are any conspiracy theorists out there, I'm not actually mad at her! Put your tinfoil hats away."
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Resident yinzer wasn’t there because she doesn’t have a car and the airport shuttle takes an hour. Not her fault Pittsburgh built it’s airport in a different city.
(In all seriousness thank you for visiting! Miles said himself Pittsburgh is the greatest city so it’s true!)
won't even ride the 28x twice for me; worst girlfriend ever
But I had a really great week so it totally makes up for it!!!!!!!
Just take that crazy bus route in Pittsburgh that makes a gazillion deviations again. You'll get there in 6 hours.
@@MilesinTransitY'all need to visit your geographical middle. Unfortunately, that probably means the forests south of Scranton.
I lived in Monroeville for two years. I despised having to get out to the airport in Moon, PA.
@@Molejules At least it's the Electric City.
"This is considered a flightless plane. I'm considered a pilot...but they pay me like a bus driver" one of the best things ever said in a Miles in Transit review. The coughing in the background made that quote even better. I can totally picture them saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have reached cruising altitude of 6’ and will be traveling at 70mph. Estimated arrival is 58 minutes. Sit back and enjoy your flight". And then starting a Fart Bunny redemption arc and scoring just ONE....bet this gives you flashbacks from the Grab the Sushi game at EWR during Great Race to NY. But hey, at least the music they play on the bus is pretty darn good. The jazz is as smooth as butter.
Southern Airways Express was founded in 2013 by Stan Little, a litigation attorney in Hernando, Mississippi. Little owned a Golden Eagle 421 which was never used by the airline. Southern's initial funding was secured by a group of unknown investors, many of whom are believed to be connected to the University of Mississippi, the alma mater of Little and co-founder Keith Sisson. The airline launched operations in June 2013, with its first flight from Olive Branch Airport near Memphis to Destin Executive Airport.
I saw another video of the LANDLINE bus and the driver did say that!
@@danielgarepis-holland3214do you have the link?
@@justinfisher5175 think it was this one th-cam.com/video/-GR4h6d4sa8/w-d-xo.html
why is American using buses on some routes?
@@SamSitar the reason is Pilot shortage, it's not just American, this is going to become nationwide at some point. Just for the small trips to transport from airport to airport. United and Sun country do similar. ..
the "apparently a trip report" theme has no business going as hard as it does, gets me every time. good video for that alone
I’m not gonna lie, between this one and “Menu Shot,” I’ve put entirely too much time into the consideration of arranging them for tuba/euphonium quartet, and performing them myself.
Well, you absolutely have to publish it if you do! (I played tuba in high school and college!)
@@MilesinTransit Well, dumber things have happened when I’ve been bored before. We shall see!
I so love that music now. Is the first video I actually saw it on. Love the jeb reference I subscribe to him and you. He even recommended a video of yours.
The slow speed of a bus combined with the slow boarding of a plane...
And a Bus ride at airfare prices. What's not to love.
@@jballew2239in Iowa bus fare is often more expensive than plane tickets
peanut butter and chocolate...
It’s sad to me that this trip is still significantly faster than taking Amtrak, where you leave Boston at 6 am, transfer in Philly to the Pennsylvanian, and arrive in Pittsburgh at 8 pm, 14 hrs later
5:39 "This is considered a flightless plane. I'm considered a pilot......but they pay me like a bus driver".
Quote of the century right there.
Man deserves to be paid like a pilot just for that
Not sure if I like the enthusiastic "we're almost here" bus voice or the tried and true whiny "next stop" voice more
of course the bus was allowed on the runway... it's a plane 😂
So is it an Airbus?
@@SWalkerTTUgroundbus
The sensual recline with the smooth jazz. *chef kiss*
3:24 it's so funny that they divided bus boarding into GROUPS
The bus among all the planes be like: *How do ya do, fellow kids?*
I love your humour and style of videos, keep up the good work. This is my first video of yours I've seen and I just subscribed. I watch a lot of Jeb Brooks and Dennis Bunnik etc, so it's refreshing to have a more "un-professional", humorous, and non-serious style lol.
That really means a lot - thank you so much!
That really means a lot - thank you so much!
That is jetBlue's Blueprint livery for their Embraer E190s at 1:08, and the livery made its debut in 2017. But man, I love the livery of jetBlue planes. My favorite airplane livery is the ANA A380 because it's an adorable sea turtle...what's not to love? I also like the Qantas Flying Art series (with liveries created by Aboriginal artists), British Airways World Art series (which had everything from Chinese calligraphy to Delftware), Hawaiian Airlines, Air New Zealand, Fiji Airways, and Alaska's livery. No one knows the identity of the person on the tail of Alaska planes, but some say it's Chester Seveck, a reindeer herder who once greeted incoming flights or Oliver Amouak who once had a traveling show around Alaska.
That aside...this is Airbus to a whole new level 🤣. Taking an airport shuttle to a bus pretending to be a flight...what a timeline. COBUS is specifically from Wiesbaden in Hesse, Germany! The COBUS 2700S can carry up to 77 passengers! As weird as it is, I'm glad the American Airlines bus exists because it helps smaller markets that wouldn't really get any flights otherwise that are close to hubs, connect to a major hub like Philadelphia and clear security ahead of time. The people mover at Pittsburgh are APM 100s, the same ones on the Bukit Panjang LRT, Atlanta's Plane Train, Seattle's SEA Underground, and Miami Metromover. And I believe the thing at 10:04 is supposed to be for headset to communicate with the pilots!
I like the TUI haribo 737s
Definitely up there with the strangest routes you've found, in the best possible way
When I was scrolling through the options in Google Flights and came across this, I was so happy
8:25 it feels like they're using smooth jazz on this bus as the equivalent of lights on most other buses - a kind of "don't get too sucked in" deterrent that keeps you alert lol
10:04 That's for an aviation headset, ie the kind the pilots would wear!
6:57 wow, I wasn't aware Miles knew Philly Highway Facts™ and I'm impressed
KLM & AF has been running bus connector services between Montreal Trudeau airport and Ottawa Railway station for a while now, but they're on pretty shabby regular coaches. Nice to see at least American has a nicer coach...
And because they're international flights they leave from outside the restricted area but they're timed for that
lancaster is such a nice little city for a nice day or weekend trip, me and my wife did an international food tour there earlier in the spring it was nice.
Love Lancaster! The central market is spectacular.
@@MilesinTransit yes it is!
I can’t explain why but I am hooked on your videos. They’re so fascinating. You do an incredible job of keeping things fresh, interesting and funny!
I really appreciate it, thank you!
@@MilesinTransit looking forward to more videos! I just joined your patreon and am looking to get to a higher tier soon to help support!
I took a bus from Syracuse to New York City recently and was ready to die. I wish I had your patience!
@@nathangursky4628 Aww, that means a lot! Thank you!
Loved this!!! You should take Southern Airways from Quincy, Illinois to Chicago O’Hare. It’s quite fun to land in the tiny plane at O’Hare!!!
I just moved to Pittsburgh and love it!
Such a great city!
Sheetz is amazing I can’t believe you’d disparage the great name of Sheetz, it’s all about the variety, when I’m high and of drunk I want to wrap a taco inside a slice of pizza and drink a slushie
He's a Wawa lobbyist.
I mean he went to college in Philly, not to mention he did a Wawa pilgrimage by going to Wawa station on opening day.
I'm really starting to sour on Wawa as they close their Center City Philadelphia locations, but I still prefer them to Sheetz!
Pizza? Now that’s what I call a taco!
Probably the weirdest way to fly to the world's largest furry con right there...
(Yes, it was that weekend, in Pittsburgh)
I swear, Aleena's family needs to have their big gathering on ANY OTHER WEEKEND!
In Germany for quite a while now there have been some ICE trains which also have a Lufthansa flight number and can be booked as parts of iteneraries. But they are regularly scheduled trains, just with a couple seats reserved for Rail&Fly. But it’s actually a good idea, because it can be cheaper then booking the ticket separately and in case you miss your flight (or train on the way back), it’s not your problem and you don’t have to pay extra.
This is strange indeed. It's been many years since I road on a prop plane (St. Louis, MO, to Harrison, AR, with two intermediate stops) and I don't miss it, even though it was interesting. The issue with the prop planes is they have to cancel if it's bad weather.
While PIT is indeed way the heck out, they do have the 28X which is fast enough and cheap if you're going to the west end, downtown or Oakland. The main issue is if you come in late at night most of the places in the post-security mall tend to be closed.
The two plugs are called GA Twin Plugs at 10:04 . As a private pilot we used them all the time in Cessna 172s I flew in during flight training. Basically you have a headset with a boom mic that has two plugs on it. Fact, one jack is slightly smaller than the other so you cannot plug them in backwards and have them work. That’s used for Intercom and in the front seats radio communications. This connection is still the standard in General Aviation. Bet that Cessna Caravan was once a GA Aircraft that was converted to airline use.
Lancaster is where i grew up, it’s crazy to see a video of you taking a bus there!
2:18 Interestingly, Cobus also is used by Copper Mountain Ski Area in Colorado to transport skiers/snowboarders from the parking area to the base areas. It's great since they are so wide.
Speaking of the Allentown Bus actually took exit 331A 476 North Allentown Scranton. At the same time it will run to Newark Airport for UA via 78 East the Landline Bus from Newark Exit 57 I-78 will then run to Philly via 476 South assuming the driver swapped from a break
10:07 that is for an aviation headset since most aircraft this small are extremely loud and the flight crew also utilize these. It is so you can talk on an intercom system in the aircraft.
I love prop planes. I've been on a few from Miami to Key West. Also, I love the Trip Report song 👍👍. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
10:04 And that's a jack for an aviation headset. They use two prongs, one for the microphone and one for audio, and are different than typical headphone jacks.
10:06 I'm late, but those are audio 1/4" jacks for connecting headsets to communicate with the pilot. A relic of the more usual uses of the Caravan.
Yup, I kinda want to fly Southern just to see what they'd do if I plug in my A20s 😂
Sadly the PGH airport renovation is going to involve removing the people movers as they will be moving the landside terminal to be directly connected to the airside terminal. Back before 2001 you could go to the airport and just ride the people movers without a ticket, loved doing that as a kid. I'll definitely miss them. I believe they were one of the first automated trains to go into service anywhere in the world. PIT was also one of the first (if not the actual first) airport to offer free wifi in the terminal.
About 20 years ago one could book direct Air France and KLM flights from Ottawa to Paris and Amsterdam, respectively. The "flights" began with a 2-hour ride from the Ottawa VIA station to P. E. Trudeau airport in Montréal with an Air France or KLM liveried bus.
0:26 Rare MD-11 FedEx taxiing in the back.
Tri-jet!
@@kitchin2 Correct!
United does this from EWR to ABE (Allentown). They had IAH to BPT (Beaumont) in the past but that was discontinued. They added DEN to FNL (Fort Collins) and QKB (Breckenridge) in 2021 (by Landline as well). I miss when United had codeshare with Amtrak to service PHL and a few other towns from EWR along the NE corridor. Their friend Lufthansa is setting up similar things across the bond in Europe though. South Airways Express did a good job serving these EAS routes. I flew PIT-DUJ-BWI and connected to Amtrak to Philly to meet friends. It was a very fun ride.
I didn't know Amtrak had a codeshare with United between EWR and PHL at one point - thats super cool. Now they legit have a flight between those two airports which is so ridiculous, gotta be one of the shortest in the US. And the best part for anyone who would fly between those cities is that theyre pretty much the first flights United cancels if there is any operations issue or weather, so half the time that useless flight is delayed or cancelled and takes way longer than driving.
@@ethan02135 That hop is far from the shortest flight within US. Even MKE-ORD is shorter than this. Most shorter flights exists for some valid reasons. e.g. milk run flights in rural Alaska, island hopper from San Juan to St. Thomas. In this case, it is more about market. United flyer in Philly area who connects to most of US east or European need to take those flights if they don't want to drive to EWR or IAD. The Amtrak codeshare tracks back to the CO days. CO and later UA had a ticketing office in NY Penn station. At one point, passengers can even check their bags at Penn station for EWR flight. Sadly it did not make financial sense and they parted away. In order to compete against direct flights by AA/US, UA tend to publish extremely cheap "flights" out of ZFV (Philly station "airport" code) and you even earn 500 miles for the train segments.
I've yet to use the United bus service from FNL, despite living in the area and flying United often. There's usually a premium of ~$100 added on to the fare, unfortunately. At that price point I can have a private shuttle service pick me up and drop me off directly at my door. I'd really like to utilize the service at some point, though.
@@ethan02135 That codeshare goes back to the days of Continental. They actually funded the old Acela lounge at NY Penn Station when Acela Express was launched in 2000, hence the codeshare agreement.
I'm moving to pittsburgh in the fall for school, so this gives me some good ideas on how to get there, lol. love your enthusiasm for the city, another awesome vid!
Oh nice!! I don't have enough good things to say about Pittsburgh - if it was in a better location (like on the Northeast Corridor), it would probably be my second favorite city in the US.
@@MilesinTransit glad to hear it :))
Love how the Synder's were blurred as though they were too sexy to show on TH-cam.
10:05 if you have an aviation headset you can plug in and listen/talk to the pilots if they don’t have isolate on.
That jingle SLAPS!
I strongly recommend the Sumner Tunnel shuttle, where you kayak over the Sumner Tunnel from LoPresti to Battery
that Jeb Brooks reference in the intro had me dying 🤣🪦 new sub! safe travels
Thanks so much!
Fun video, Miles!
Thanks!
@@MilesinTransit Your welcome, Miles!! I’m going to be starting a TH-cam channel soon.
my first flight as a child was in 1988 on a prop plane from ACY to PHL to catch a jet to YYZ. The 80s were a fun time when Amtrak served Atlantic City and built that nice single track and AC train station that NJT got to inherit.
That looked interesting. You did a great job.
Thanks!
Love this channel. Come for the music, stay for the life lessons/advice.
Thanks so much!
Just about any large airport will have tarmac buses, especially if offering airside shuttrle between terminals. It is also used in case fo major problems where there is need to evacuate or load aircract that isn't withing wallimng distance to a gate. They have very wide doors, flat floors, o seats im order to cater to passengers with luggage.
In 1987, the early RER at CDG didn't stop inside the terminals, there was such a bus shuttle service landside on airport roadways to bring people from the early train station to each terminal. These were some of the earliest "low floor" buses.
yeah, Philly's airport is very strange indeed. Flown through it a few times and have done this very trip with the bus within the airport.
i once made a big effort trip to fly to pittsburgh and my dad was ~1 hour late picking me up because he was off picking up (not for me) a burnt almond torte (ask any yinzer about them)
Maybe he was sitting down by a crick, sipping on some IC Lights, and lost track of time.
I live in Lancaster and do my flight training there! Always wanted to see how they did things on the bus
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0:22 Called the a320 by Airbus ''Embraer''.
1:26 I actually like this, that way you can use your Bluetooth headphones since the normal screens you can’t use
That's a good point!
I saw a video awhile ago that some of the busses have a flight/bus attendant on it that served you drinks and snacks for the ride.
Especially on the outbound trips, they should add a stop in the town - e.g. if you were flying LHR to LNS you're not particularly interested in the airport in LNS, and you've gone through immigration and everything anyway.
The flightless plane pilot was funny
I love the pure chaos energy here. Jeb Brooks is your next step in evolution 😂
I love Jeb, but if I ever lose the chaotic edge, that'll be a sad day!
The weird jacks in the last plane are for aviation headset like the ones the pilots were wearing. Aviation headsets are usually extremely noise isolated and modern ones use active noise cancellation. Cause the cockpit is loud as hell the pilots wear them the entire trip and can intercom with each other, make an announcement, and use the radios with the same headset. They use them in normal commercial jets too you just don't get a plug for their circuit as a passenger.
That would be cool if they actually work on their Caravans. Then you could listen to the whole pilot-controller conversation the whole flight. Full immersion!
@@intrepidfox37 someone should just plug in audiojack headphones in the speaker socket and report what happens. I have some but am a whole continent away, Too far to do the test 😁
Lufthansa has a bus from Strasbourg (city centre) to Frankfurt. It's actually pretty inconvenient (takes a lot more time than taking the train to Charles de Gaulle or even Frankfurt airport, leaves impossibly early), however it gives you access to interesting fares transfering in Frankfurt because it directly competes with flights from Strasbourg or whatever deal Air France has going on with the TGV to CDG near Paris. Unfortunately though you actually have to be on it, which is really difficult if you don't actually live in Straßburg but in Germany...
I freaking love that intro!
Thank you!
@@MilesinTransit It's Apparently Awesome. Just like, Apparently a Trip Report.
Now you and Jeb have taken the AA bus, we have reviews from both ends of the travel budget spectrum.
Good use of the word diegetic, and I appreciate the banter from the "flightless plane pilot." (And it is a "special livery" on the JetBlue plane, Boston only, been around since '17 - strange how many JetBlue liveries are Boston exclusive considering it's "New York's Hometown Airline.")
Trust an airline to make boarding a bus as miserable an experience as possible. The dou le jack in the prop plane was for headphones. Old style like the pilot uses.
Take a shot every time Miles says "fun".
This was truly an odd trip, but kinda neat to see exists and supplements smaller, regional airports.
This will most definitely go in the history of Miles in Transit for most oddly specific video
I saw one of those Cobus things in Montreal
No broomstick plane, Harry?
I was hoping the bus would get in line for takeoff.
Lancaster airport has FAA subsidized flights to BWI in Baltimore that are Cheap.
Left over from the deregulation of airlines so some towns got thrown a bone.
Have you ever been to NYC transit museum I think you will enjoy the transit history there I take a lot of friends from out of state and overseas there . As someone who always had a interest in history I like it
Yeah, it's fantastic!
At least the pilot/driver has a sense of humor on that bus with that "I'm considered a pilot but they pay me like a bus driver" line.
I was going to buy that saxophone based cheez but instead I just keep looping this video.
Video idea find a local train line and you have to find the most interesting thing you can do within a mile of each stop. Then rank them and if you would make the effort to get off at that stop if you don’t have to.
That'd be cool for a one-line system like Buffalo or something!
I think a couple of these destinations used to be flown from Philadelphia and were changed to bus routes.
hi miles! Glad to see you're doing more aviation videos! Keep up the amazing content and more AATR! I love just watching your videos and vibing! Also First!
Thanks so much!
Loved the intro 😂
When Miles has a huge following of over 1 million people I HOPE he keeps the intro song 👌. Its just soooooooo good!!!
I can never get rid of that intro!
Been on only a couple of Cobuses in my life, they can really pack in people. They basically have a monopoly on airport-specialized buses, but I do wonder if Cobus ever tried entering the actual public transit market.
I know in Munich (and maybe Vienna if I remember correctly) they also use cobus at their airports
2 hr lay over then a 1.5 hr flight from lancaster to pittsburgh... might as well just have sent the bus the whole way xD
A proper description of the Blue Route? Miles did his research!
I thought it was funny that Lufthansa offers "flight" connections complete with flight numbers that are just operated on Deutsche Bahn (like a flight from Houston to Düsseldorf is a flight to Frankfurt then an ICE to Düsseldorf), but a BUS?
At least that is just a normal train ticket and they don't make you do an overly complicated boarding procedure.
Head to the air rail terminal, on to the station and train and off you are. Takes about 10 minutes
I appreciate the Good Doctor meme reference
I loved when that was a thing. Like, I wish it had kept going. That was such a blessed couple of days where my entire Twitter timeline was just a bunch of deranged Good Doctor clips. Incredible.
10:05 those are quarter inch audio jack it looks like! Probably ideal for headsets
This is hilarious content.
Thank you so much!!
I watched the end of this video on 0.25x speed just to see that message lol.
If you're not able to catch it, I got you: it says "In case there are any conspiracy theorists out there, I'm not actually mad at her! Put your tinfoil hats away."
Thank you for this service.
Thats a fun vlog!
Where was the trolley service? And the hot towel?
Glad to see another video mentioning the greatest city in the world, Lancaster, PA
#SheetzGang
Hope you had fun in Pittsburgh 😁
Always!
I was on an embraer once, (sorry for the bad grammar). it was on Air Canada Express back in April. LGA-YUL, YYZ-LGA.
Michigan seems a dream to me now.
those ports on the small plane are for internal comm headsets!
RIP Fart Bunny 2023-2023: At least you scored 1 point before you died.
I think I at least know how to play the game now...next time I'll get my revenge!
@@MilesinTransit 2 whole points next time! An entire 100% increase!
I seen this looking up tickets. Was odd idea but guess they were thinking 🤔 Amtrak does it. They won’t notice.
i love your credit music :)
Thank you! All credit goes to Jackson for that one!
United has a code share with Amtrak for a few places along the NEC, it just is not advertised at all.
I think it went away during COVID, but I'm really hoping they bring it back!
Visiting Pittsburgh during anthrocon two years in a row? The suspicion grows!
I didn't go to Pittsburgh that weekend last year! Did I?
They should call this American Beagle, because this is like ridin’ the dog!
Now we just need an plane with special greyhound livery and Miles needs to ride it!
Even better, a Greyhound dot livery 😂