I Found the Craziest Flight from Boston to Pittsburgh 

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.

the "apparently a trip report" theme has no business going as hard as it does, gets me every time. good video for that alone

The slow speed of a bus combined with the slow boarding of a plane...

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.

of course the bus was allowed on the runway... it's a plane 😂

Not sure if I like the enthusiastic "we're almost here" bus voice or the tried and true whiny "next stop" voice more

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.

6:57 wow, I wasn't aware Miles knew Philly Highway Facts™ and I'm impressed

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

Definitely up there with the strangest routes you've found, in the best possible way

3:24 it's so funny that they divided bus boarding into GROUPS

The sensual recline with the smooth jazz. *chef kiss*

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.

I'd love to see the speed and altitude displayed at the front of the bus for the whole trip. "7 feet, 65 mph"

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

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.

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

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!

10:07 that is for an aviation headset since most aircraft this small are extremely loud and the flight crew also utilize these. It is so you can talk on an intercom system in the aircraft.

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.

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!

I'm moving to pittsburgh in the fall for school, so this gives me some good ideas on how to get there, lol. love your enthusiasm for the city, another awesome vid!

The two plugs are called GA Twin Plugs at 10:04 . As a private pilot we used them all the time in Cessna 172s I flew in during flight training. Basically you have a headset with a boom mic that has two plugs on it. Fact, one jack is slightly smaller than the other so you cannot plug them in backwards and have them work. That’s used for Intercom and in the front seats radio communications. This connection is still the standard in General Aviation. Bet that Cessna Caravan was once a GA Aircraft that was converted to airline use.

Lancaster is where i grew up, it’s crazy to see a video of you taking a bus there!

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)

I was going to buy that saxophone based cheez but instead I just keep looping this video.

I love the pure chaos energy here. Jeb Brooks is your next step in evolution 😂

Probably the weirdest way to fly to the world's largest furry con right there... (Yes, it was that weekend, in Pittsburgh)

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 hoping the bus would get in line for takeoff.

This will most definitely go in the history of Miles in Transit for most oddly specific video

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

Love how the Synder's were blurred as though they were too sexy to show on RU-vid.

At least the pilot/driver has a sense of humor on that bus with that "I'm considered a pilot but they pay me like a bus driver" line.

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.

my first flight as a child was in 1988 on a prop plane from ACY to PHL to catch a jet to YYZ. The 80s were a fun time when Amtrak served Atlantic City and built that nice single track and AC train station that NJT got to inherit.

I just moved to Pittsburgh and love it!

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!!!

The flightless plane pilot was funny

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

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.

that Jeb Brooks reference in the intro had me dying 🤣🪦 new sub! safe travels

About 20 years ago one could book direct Air France and KLM flights from Ottawa to Paris and Amsterdam, respectively. The "flights" began with a 2-hour ride from the Ottawa VIA station to P. E. Trudeau airport in Montréal with an Air France or KLM liveried bus.

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!

Now you and Jeb have taken the AA bus, we have reviews from both ends of the travel budget spectrum.

Loved the intro 😂

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 looked interesting. You did a great job.

MY GOODNESS! REAL DEAL GROOVY DUDE ALERT!!! SUBSCRIBED.

Thats a fun vlog!

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."

Air travel has regressed so far that some flights are now on buses. Might as well hitch up the horse and buggy 😂

10:04 And that's a jack for an aviation headset. They use two prongs, one for the microphone and one for audio, and are different than typical headphone jacks.

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.

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.

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.

That’s wild about the bus. The driver is 😂

Fun video, Miles!

In Germany for quite a while now there have been some ICE trains which also have a Lufthansa flight number and can be booked as parts of iteneraries. But they are regularly scheduled trains, just with a couple seats reserved for Rail&Fly. But it’s actually a good idea, because it can be cheaper then booking the ticket separately and in case you miss your flight (or train on the way back), it’s not your problem and you don’t have to pay extra.

I freaking love that intro!

I saw one of those Cobus things in Montreal

Especially on the outbound trips, they should add a stop in the town - e.g. if you were flying LHR to LNS you're not particularly interested in the airport in LNS, and you've gone through immigration and everything anyway.

yeah, Philly's airport is very strange indeed. Flown through it a few times and have done this very trip with the bus within the airport.

challenge: travel blogger doesnt have window seat (impossible)

I strongly recommend the Sumner Tunnel shuttle, where you kayak over the Sumner Tunnel from LoPresti to Battery

I saw a video awhile ago that some of the busses have a flight/bus attendant on it that served you drinks and snacks for the ride.

This is hilarious content.

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.

I was on an embraer once, (sorry for the bad grammar). it was on Air Canada Express back in April. LGA-YUL, YYZ-LGA.

0:26 Rare MD-11 FedEx taxiing in the back.

I think a couple of these destinations used to be flown from Philadelphia and were changed to bus routes.

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?

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

Visiting Pittsburgh during anthrocon two years in a row? The suspicion grows!

I seen this looking up tickets. Was odd idea but guess they were thinking 🤔 Amtrak does it. They won’t notice.

RIP Fart Bunny 2023-2023: At least you scored 1 point before you died.

1:26 I actually like this, that way you can use your Bluetooth headphones since the normal screens you can’t use

i love your credit music :)

Michigan seems a dream to me now.

The weird jacks in the last plane are for aviation headset like the ones the pilots were wearing. Aviation headsets are usually extremely noise isolated and modern ones use active noise cancellation. Cause the cockpit is loud as hell the pilots wear them the entire trip and can intercom with each other, make an announcement, and use the radios with the same headset. They use them in normal commercial jets too you just don't get a plug for their circuit as a passenger.

A proper description of the Blue Route? Miles did his research!

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.

I appreciate the Good Doctor meme reference

Gosh this brings me back some memories of fueling planes at O'hare. Being up close and personal with the planes and driving within an airport is a bit surreal ngl.

I live in Lancaster and do my flight training there! Always wanted to see how they did things on the bus

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.

Next time you need to build enough time into your schedule for another Snyders factory tour.

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?

Lufthansa has a bus from Strasbourg (city centre) to Frankfurt. It's actually pretty inconvenient (takes a lot more time than taking the train to Charles de Gaulle or even Frankfurt airport, leaves impossibly early), however it gives you access to interesting fares transfering in Frankfurt because it directly competes with flights from Strasbourg or whatever deal Air France has going on with the TGV to CDG near Paris. Unfortunately though you actually have to be on it, which is really difficult if you don't actually live in Straßburg but in Germany...

0:22 Called the a320 by Airbus ''Embraer''.

Wow, I would do that, I live around the Lancaster area and no one that I know uses that airport because southern has a horrible on-time track record but American seams to be good. But it’s great that Americans there now though when I fly southern it’s always the last flight of my trip

I live 20 minutes from the philly airport and I've driven on i76 and the blue route a bunch, always weird to see travel videos somewhere I'm so familiar with

Nice cool I've only been to greyhound and flixbus

Lancaster airport has FAA subsidized flights to BWI in Baltimore that are Cheap. Left over from the deregulation of airlines so some towns got thrown a bone.

those ports on the small plane are for internal comm headsets!

I know in Munich (and maybe Vienna if I remember correctly) they also use cobus at their airports

I recognized the voice of the bus driver, he was the same driver that took us from Atlantic City Airport to Philadelphia International Airport on the 12:30pm bus on June 24. At the time I fly with American, boarding from Atlantic City is just like any other bus route, outside by the curb of the airport. Apparently at the time this happened you could not clear security in Atlantic City as it wasn’t going to be implemented until July, 6. The driver told us that TSA was skeptical about a bus from airport to airport with already clearing security. They were considering to add tape that as long as the driver side window and front door isn’t open you can get dropped off at terminal F. So hopefully it was implemented.