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!
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."
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)
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
It's to expand the reach of the airline without needing to fly more expensive planes - in a roundabout way, now people in Lancaster can get connecting flights on American to the whole network!
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
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.
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.
What? no jetway to board the bus at airport? Unacceptable 🙂 KLM and Air France offer flighst from Ottawa Canada to Amsterdam and Paris respectively. It is a one stop route, with first leg operated as KL 322 and AF 311 respectively. It is also a flightless plane. Irony: both buses depart from the Ottawa _TRAIN_ station where each airport has a check-in kiosk. Not sure if still like that but prior to 9/11, you would check your luggage at Ottawa. Arriving Dorval/Montréal airport, passemger disembark landside and go through security. (no check in as they already have boarding passes from Ottawa check-in. Bus would then go to one of the land/airside checkpoints, enter airside, and unload luggage from its hold onto airport tugs that would go directly to the plane. (however, coming back, since you had to claim luggage at customs, you would then have to bring it to the bus. In both cases, radio between bus and airline ensured the plane would wait for bus if delayed and vice versa for return trip. (9/11 may have changed the luggage handling but not sure).
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.
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
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.
How could you insult cobus. They are a brand I love for airport buses because they are very well designed. They can’t go on public roads but they have a very low floor and a lot of floor space, perfect for its use of shuttling people in an airport.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
I've been riding 'the transit' at the Pittsburgh airport my entire life. With the new terminal they're building, I imagine it will be going away in the future. I've always liked it though, a little train ride before you get on your plane.
Yep the transit will be going away. I get why (the new airport will be smaller as the current one is overbuilt since it used to be a hub) but it was always kinda fun.
@@BrentFioreWith Pittsburgh starting to grow again, and US air travel exceeding pre-pandemic figures, the down-sizing project could be an expensive mistake. Pittsburgh still has 2.4 million residents in its metro area, and is similarly sized to Denver, Austin, Portland, Tampa, and Charlotte, all of which serve between 20 million and 60 million passengers every year. Pittsburgh's declining population may have scared off some airlines, but the trend seems to have reversed, and I'm sure airlines will want to capitalize on this rebound.
@@GeoMeridium That's true, though the new facility will still have 51 gates, which is more than Austin (34). Portland has 60, which is only a few more for a city that is an Alaska hub. I think a major airline hub that requires 75-100 gates like USAir did coming to PIT ever again is just not in the cards. Eliminating the transit will save money and walking from security right to the gates is very convenient. Hopefully faster baggage processing too. It also will allow for more parking, which ugh but I guess it's in demand as some lots were full when I visited recently.
@@ttownfeen A train is never happening. A busway expansion is more likely, but it would require rerouting from Carnegie and would almost certainly have to serve Robinson and Moon.
Ahh I was brought over here from Instagram and one of them mentioned about Landline between Philadelphia and Atlantic City. I was curious what was is like from plane to bus and vice versa. was it comfortable? was the luggage already transfer from plane to bus.
The bus was comfortable! I didn't check bags, but the Jeb Brooks video about the Atlantic City route says what happens with checked bags (I can't remember off the top of my head): th-cam.com/video/-GR4h6d4sa8/w-d-xo.html
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
So weird showing up to the airport, going through TSA, walking through all the gates and boarding a bus. I get this is probably used for people with connecting flights. I would find it weird if someone actually started the trip in Philadelphia.
I work for American. You got our oldest, shittiest plane without a doubt. Those seats are aging, horribly, My question to you as an AvGeek is are you into transit by air as much as you are by bus/train? You clearly have heard the snoot boop reference
I don't know much about planes at all! I'm more interested in stuff on the ground (which I suppose is why one of my few "aviation" videos is actually about a 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.
What would the time comparison be between this trip and taking the train from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh? Also the train goes to Pittsburgh while the airport is way outside the city.
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.
It's like a five hour drive to pittsburgh vs a 40 minute flight. Unless its way cheaper than other buses no one would take this since you have to go all the way to the airport and through security and everyhting.
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 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...
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.
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
of course the bus was allowed on the runway... it's a plane 😂
So is it an Airbus?
@@SWalkerTTUgroundbus
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!
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?*
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
Not sure if I like the enthusiastic "we're almost here" bus voice or the tried and true whiny "next stop" voice more
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!
How much more did that cost than just flying directly to Pittsburgh? 🙂
Maybe like $50 more? It was worth it for the bus ride!
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.
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 was hoping the bus would get in line for takeoff.
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
6:57 wow, I wasn't aware Miles knew Philly Highway Facts™ and I'm impressed
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!
The flightless plane pilot was funny
I had no idea one could ride a bus… from the air side if an airport… to another airport. What exactly is the purpose of this?
It's to expand the reach of the airline without needing to fly more expensive planes - in a roundabout way, now people in Lancaster can get connecting flights on American to the whole network!
Americans will do everything to not build a train.
challenge: travel blogger doesnt have window seat (impossible)
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!!!
No broomstick plane, Harry?
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
10:04 That's for an aviation headset, ie the kind the pilots would wear!
Wait, we never found out if the shuttle was faster or not, I'm going to sit on the edge of my seat until it's officially specified.
Crap, you're right! It was definitely faster, although I'm not sure exactly by how much...
@@MilesinTransit I guess you gotta do it again, you know...for science, though you might also be able to look at raw clip timestamps
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.
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.
What? no jetway to board the bus at airport? Unacceptable 🙂
KLM and Air France offer flighst from Ottawa Canada to Amsterdam and Paris respectively. It is a one stop route, with first leg operated as
KL 322 and AF 311 respectively. It is also a flightless plane.
Irony: both buses depart from the Ottawa _TRAIN_ station where each airport has a check-in kiosk.
Not sure if still like that but prior to 9/11, you would check your luggage at Ottawa. Arriving Dorval/Montréal airport, passemger disembark landside and go through security. (no check in as they already have boarding passes from Ottawa check-in. Bus would then go to one of the land/airside checkpoints, enter airside, and unload luggage from its hold onto airport tugs that would go directly to the plane. (however, coming back, since you had to claim luggage at customs, you would then have to bring it to the bus. In both cases, radio between bus and airline ensured the plane would wait for bus if delayed and vice versa for return trip. (9/11 may have changed the luggage handling but not sure).
I'd love to see the speed and altitude displayed at the front of the bus for the whole trip. "7 feet, 65 mph"
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!
d i a g e t i c
Tom Scott music video
One of my favorite words!
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
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!
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
I was going to buy that saxophone based cheez but instead I just keep looping this video.
An A319
0:22 Called the a320 by Airbus ''Embraer''.
I seen this looking up tickets. Was odd idea but guess they were thinking 🤔 Amtrak does it. They won’t notice.
I saw one of those Cobus things in Montreal
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.
I was on an embraer once, (sorry for the bad grammar). it was on Air Canada Express back in April. LGA-YUL, YYZ-LGA.
How could you insult cobus. They are a brand I love for airport buses because they are very well designed. They can’t go on public roads but they have a very low floor and a lot of floor space, perfect for its use of shuttling people in an airport.
Did I insult them? I thought it was a pretty cool bus!
@@MilesinTransitit was your confused tone, they are very popular in European airports, thought it would be more international.
Love how the Synder's were blurred as though they were too sexy to show on TH-cam.
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.
@5:40.....the bus identifies as an Airbus.....please don't speak of it otherwise....lol
0:26 Rare MD-11 FedEx taxiing in the back.
Tri-jet!
@@kitchin2 Correct!
Where was the trolley service? And the hot towel?
There was a article in July 13th Philadelphia Inquire about the American Airline Buses
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.
Gotta say, buses on the airplane ramp will never NOT be cool.
Next time you need to build enough time into your schedule for another Snyders factory tour.
As far as I'm aware, they suspended them during COVID :(
@@MilesinTransit That’s a shame. I guess I just never noticed your Pretzel Pilgrim video was pre pandemic.
The bus driver clearly hates his job.
I think a couple of these destinations used to be flown from Philadelphia and were changed to bus routes.
Aye welcome to my Airport Pittsburgh International
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!
Air travel has regressed so far that some flights are now on buses. Might as well hitch up the horse and buggy 😂
Once the new terminal at PIT is complete, the people mover transit will be discontinued. Enjoy that while you can.
I know, very sad!
Weird, it's like there was an ashtray there or something. Maybe a Chinese plane.
This is hilarious content.
Thank you so much!!
Keep the credits. I feel like I'm playing double dash
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
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!
I live in Lancaster and do my flight training there! Always wanted to see how they did things on the bus
I've been riding 'the transit' at the Pittsburgh airport my entire life. With the new terminal they're building, I imagine it will be going away in the future. I've always liked it though, a little train ride before you get on your plane.
Yep the transit will be going away. I get why (the new airport will be smaller as the current one is overbuilt since it used to be a hub) but it was always kinda fun.
@@BrentFioreWith Pittsburgh starting to grow again, and US air travel exceeding pre-pandemic figures, the down-sizing project could be an expensive mistake.
Pittsburgh still has 2.4 million residents in its metro area, and is similarly sized to Denver, Austin, Portland, Tampa, and Charlotte, all of which serve between 20 million and 60 million passengers every year. Pittsburgh's declining population may have scared off some airlines, but the trend seems to have reversed, and I'm sure airlines will want to capitalize on this rebound.
@@GeoMeridium That's true, though the new facility will still have 51 gates, which is more than Austin (34). Portland has 60, which is only a few more for a city that is an Alaska hub.
I think a major airline hub that requires 75-100 gates like USAir did coming to PIT ever again is just not in the cards. Eliminating the transit will save money and walking from security right to the gates is very convenient. Hopefully faster baggage processing too.
It also will allow for more parking, which ugh but I guess it's in demand as some lots were full when I visited recently.
Just wish PIT had a train from the airport to city center. Or even just an extension of the West busway
@@ttownfeen A train is never happening. A busway expansion is more likely, but it would require rerouting from Carnegie and would almost certainly have to serve Robinson and Moon.
Lancaster is where i grew up, it’s crazy to see a video of you taking a bus there!
Ahh I was brought over here from Instagram and one of them mentioned about Landline between Philadelphia and Atlantic City. I was curious what was is like from plane to bus and vice versa. was it comfortable? was the luggage already transfer from plane to bus.
The bus was comfortable! I didn't check bags, but the Jeb Brooks video about the Atlantic City route says what happens with checked bags (I can't remember off the top of my head): th-cam.com/video/-GR4h6d4sa8/w-d-xo.html
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!
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!
A proper description of the Blue Route? Miles did his research!
Doesn't even know a luggage loader or a tow motor lol this is dreadful
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.
So weird showing up to the airport, going through TSA, walking through all the gates and boarding a bus. I get this is probably used for people with connecting flights. I would find it weird if someone actually started the trip in Philadelphia.
Unfortunately the bus-only trips are INSANELY expensive - they really only want you to use them if you're connecting.
@@MilesinTransit that is what I figured.
AAAAAAAAdvantage!
The sensual recline with the smooth jazz. *chef kiss*
0:28 MD-11
Michigan seems a dream to me now.
I work for American. You got our oldest, shittiest plane without a doubt. Those seats are aging, horribly,
My question to you as an AvGeek is are you into transit by air as much as you are by bus/train?
You clearly have heard the snoot boop reference
I don't know much about planes at all! I'm more interested in stuff on the ground (which I suppose is why one of my few "aviation" videos is actually about a bus...)
But they pay me like a bus driver 😂😂😂
Hey some people like Sheetz, other people are wrong ;)
I just moved to Pittsburgh and love it!
Such a great city!
I wonder if they disabled the headset jacks
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.
those ports on the small plane are for internal comm headsets!
Could've flown out of PVD, there is a cheaper flight to Pittsburgh
I don't think the point of this was to take a cheap flight!
Sponsored by Snyder's? Why not?
that intro did not need to go that hard
What would the time comparison be between this trip and taking the train from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh? Also the train goes to Pittsburgh while the airport is way outside the city.
It would be very competitive with the train...the train takes around seven hours.
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.
you get a like because of the intro song. that is all.
2:20 that is the same bus that was sent to Nashville
That is one moldy drivers seat.
I've been to Scroplin and its way fuckin better than Moplin
Agreed
I feel like American Airlines could extend the Lancaster route to Pittsburgh and just have a Lancaster stop. Kind of like a one-stop flight.
It's like a five hour drive to pittsburgh vs a 40 minute flight. Unless its way cheaper than other buses no one would take this since you have to go all the way to the airport and through security and everyhting.
A true airbus
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 😂
Visiting Pittsburgh during anthrocon two years in a row? The suspicion grows!
I didn't go to Pittsburgh that weekend last year! Did I?
Real AirBus