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xkcd #3124: Grounded

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We should have you at the gate in just under two hours--two and a half if we get pulled over.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

They joke, but.... https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/experience/landline.jsp

A bus that boards at a gate and drives to another airport and drops off at a gate..

There was a video of someone deliberately taking these lines and included someone a bit shocked that the 'flight' they booked was just a bus...