"Flights" that aren't actually on aircraft
Feb 27, 2018, 8:09 am
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The Strasbourg-Frankfurt bus. Used to be a lot more useful before there were high-speed cross-border trains!
https://www.lufthansa.com/de/en/Lufthansa-Express-Bus
Yup, Swiss and SBB still have an impressive network that still do that:
https://www.sbb.ch/en/station-servic...omparison.html
Mind you, Japan:
Traveling to Japan | YAMATO TRANSPORT GLOBAL
https://www.lufthansa.com/de/en/Lufthansa-Express-Bus
Originally Posted by lhrsfo
Years ago when I used to ski in Switzerland, Swissair allowed you to check your baggage right through to your hotel in whichever resort you were going to, and would pick up your suitcases from your hotel on the return, delivering them at Heathrow baggage claim. I don’t know whether they sold the train ticket.
https://www.sbb.ch/en/station-servic...omparison.html
Mind you, Japan:
Traveling to Japan | YAMATO TRANSPORT GLOBAL
Feb 27, 2018, 8:15 am
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LH has codeshare options with Deutsche Bahn between FRA and Stuttgart (and I think Cologne and Düsseldorf).
UA also connects at EWR to Amtrak trains to Philadelphia.
There is also a bus service between Dubai city centre and AUH, which I think can be booked as an EY codeshare.
When searching Kayak for flights to/from BHX, results sometimes include a National Express bus sector between BHX and LHR.
UA also connects at EWR to Amtrak trains to Philadelphia.
There is also a bus service between Dubai city centre and AUH, which I think can be booked as an EY codeshare.
When searching Kayak for flights to/from BHX, results sometimes include a National Express bus sector between BHX and LHR.
In the 1980s, LH operated special fancy trains about five times a day in each direction between FRA, Bonn, Koln, and DUS. It was about a $20 add on to a TWA TATL ticket. For departures, your bags were checked on the train, but you needed to deliver them to big trolleys on the platform of the FRA train station. You also supposedly checked in on the train, but I don't remember whether you also needed to go to the counter at FRA. (Obviously this was way back in history before OLCI.)
Feb 27, 2018, 8:37 am
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Feb 27, 2018, 9:41 am
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In the 1980s, LH operated special fancy trains about five times a day in each direction between FRA, Bonn, Koln, and DUS. It was about a $20 add on to a TWA TATL ticket. For departures, your bags were checked on the train, but you needed to deliver them to big trolleys on the platform of the FRA train station. You also supposedly checked in on the train, but I don't remember whether you also needed to go to the counter at FRA. (Obviously this was way back in history before OLCI.)
Feb 27, 2018, 10:59 am
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Originally Posted by Proudelitist
If you have ever done the Rio to Sao Paulo to US thing, you get a single itinerary with a flight from GIG to CGH, and then have to make your way across the city to GRU for the flight out of Brazil. BTW..make sure you have HOURS. It is a slow drive. There is a shuttle bus, but I think a taxi is probably quicker. Or a helicopter. I looked into the helicopter..it about 500 dollars.
If it's not rush hour, or raining badly, you're OK though, as it is about 45 minutes by the airport shuttle bus which cost about R$15 back then. But otherwise I think it took me 4 hours once in a taxi while navigating rush hour "and" in a rainstorm !! Thankfully I only had 1-2 flight choices from SDU-CGH and they were early afternoon so I had the time to spare.
$500 US sounds brutal though, as you can go from the helipad on one high rise to another for $150 US in downtown GRU.
Feb 27, 2018, 6:30 pm
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Feb 28, 2018, 9:53 pm
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IIRC UA or AA (legacy US) runs buses between Allentown PA and PHL, but I think there's talk of discontinuing this service.
Feb 28, 2018, 11:08 pm
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We have local fog problems here in winter, and I've seen airlines handle IRROPS by flying into an airport that isn't fogged in followed by a charter bus to the passengers' ticketed destination. The airline's CoC says they'll try to get you where you're supposed to go, but it doesn't guarantee it will be by airplane.
Mar 1, 2018, 5:45 am
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From the title I thought perhaps this thread was going to be about recreational drug use
I'd heard of a couple of these but didn't know how many such instances were out there. Pretty interesting!
I'd heard of a couple of these but didn't know how many such instances were out there. Pretty interesting!
Mar 1, 2018, 8:47 am
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Surprisingly it doesn't work that way in California. I don't know if the rules are different by state, but if you search for a bus from Sacramento to Stockton there is none available, but if you book from somewhere else (like Emeryville) it will show you an option taking a train to Sacramento then connecting to a bus (a direct bus Sacramento to Stockton).