When your first-class 'flight' turns out to be a bus ride
Kennedy Woodard-Jones checked in for her flight home from a work trip 24 hours in advance earlier this month. Her emailed reminder from American Airlines referenced her “flight to Chicago O’Hare,” for which she had chosen a seat. She went through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint as usual.
Woodard-Jones, an engineer, lined up at the gate in South Bend, Indiana, and that’s when things got confusing. A bus sat outside, with workers loading bags underneath. She figured the bus would take them to the plane. But the American Airlines-branded motor coach rolled down the tarmac and off airport property.
“It wasn’t until we were on the highway that I realized this is my ride to O’Hare,” said Woodard-Jones, 27. “There’s no plane. It took me a second for it to really lock in that this is not a plane ride.”
Woodard-Jones had found herself traveling via a fairly recent development in regional transportation. The Landline Company, founded in 2018, operates routes via bus for three airlines from small communities to larger hubs that might have once been served with the type of small planes that have fallen out of use.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/first-class-flight-turns-bus-090003396.html
That's about a two-and-a-half-hour road trip according to Google Maps. Article doesn't say what the cost of the ticket is.