Your Next American Airlines Flight Might Be a Bus

It’s a hen. It’s a aircraft. Actually, it’s a bus.

American Airlines can be transporting passengers on a few of its connecting flights on buses instead of planes. The airline signed a cope with Landline, an organization that describes itself because the airport of the long run (if the airport of the long run ran out of planes). The firm took to Twitter to say partly, “We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with @AmericanAir! Seamless connections between American’s Philadelphia hub to Lehigh Valley Airport (ABE), and Atlantic City International Airport (ACY), beginning June 3.”

The newest change from clouds to asphalt comes amidst rising gas costs and a scarcity of pilots that’s principally affecting regional airways. However, American Airlines guarantees will probably be the identical nice expertise you’ve come to count on from the corporate. Passengers will be capable of buy tickets by means of American Airlines and baggage will hopefully make its method from the bus to the aircraft as with all different connecting flight. The buses will even be donned in the identical paint because the planes. All that’s lacking is definitely leaving the bottom.

As an added bonus, passengers will clear safety in Allentown and Atlantic City previous to arriving on the Philadelphia International Airport, the place the buses will transport them to a particular gate.

Landline has comparable partnerships with United Airlines in Denver, which the corporate refers to as “groundline coach,” and Sun Country Airlines in seven cities throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin. It proposes the bus flights as a extra handy different to journey between airports.

The flights from Philadelphia to Allentown and to Atlantic City at the moment take about half-hour every. By bus, the journey would take about two hours. On the opposite hand, touring by bus is much more environmentally pleasant than hopping on a aircraft. Buses launch a considerably decrease quantity of carbon dioxide into the air, thereby lowering your carbon footprint.