My wife has tried many times to book, is there any transparency around when trips are actually made/one's ability to book?
SleepBus – nightly non-stop trips between LA and SF
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Re: SleepBus – nightly non-stop trips between LA and SF
#12The obvious status quo is purchasing a redeye flight. The Bay Area is remarkably well served by 3 international airports and LAX is enormous. Seems to me that there will be lots of overnight flights at competitive rates to compete against. The other issue is cost. Each bus you purchase is a huge investment and presumably unusable during the day for other operations. The economics seem slim at a high startup cost. I'd…
The UK has a few sleeper trains, where you get a proper (if small) cabin with a proper bed etc. They run from London to some of the major cities; I'm particularly fond of the London-to-Inverness sleeper (the buffet car does a killer haggis). Cost wise, it's considerably more expensive than an Easyjet cattle-car class flight. But the big benefit is that it takes no working-day wall clock time. I can leave the office i…
very well said--"no wall clock time" as you put it. I've done the Euston/Kings Cross -> Inverness and E/KC -> Ft William many times and i loved it. Inverness has an airport and it's only an up-and-down flight, but what an ass ache to travel to gatwick to catch this flight rather than a 15-minute tube ride to the train station.