Commercial airlines have become the Greyhound busses of the 21st century. SMH
Isn’t that the truth!
Actually the Greyhound buses are far better.
Buses were recently upgraded - daughter took one back to college (against my wishes) - she said it was very nice, comfortable, clean had good Internet...
Spirit Airlines OTOH...
Even Greyhound riders know better than to fly Spirit or the other budget airlines. You meet a better class of people on a Hound.
On the Greyhound bus analogy....have you ridden any Greyhound recently?
The last trip I did was in July 2013...2-hour ‘adventure’ from Birmingham to N. Ala. The station in Birmingham is in the absolute worst part of town.
Bus was half-full when we departed, and I ended up near the rear of the bus. Bus was maybe 20 minutes out...when we pulled over to the side of the interstate (driver had called the Sheriff). We then had two deputies enter and tell some guy in toilet to accompany them (huffing crack in the toilet apparently).
After that...about five folks around me started to discuss their past year....all were in some regional prison and this was their first day of freedom.
If you think bus travel has any better situations....no, as badly as plane-travel has fallen (I ready agree upon)...bus-travel has gone just as far.