Originally Posted by
maokh
What was hilarious is that there were at least 1-2 pax who thought it was an actual plan, and dismayed/upset it was a bus. I kid you not. As if they would be flying some plane 50 miles to Philly.
It
is an actual
plan; it's just not an actual
plane.
As noted, airlines have flown very short routes with actual planes in the past. AL/US used to operate
mainline aircraft (DC-9's) from ITH to ELM -- a whopping 32 statute miles -- as part of its PIT-ITH-ELM-PIT triangle route.