{"id":60,"date":"2008-06-08T10:33:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T15:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/08\/michigan-flyer\/"},"modified":"2008-10-19T11:31:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T16:31:19","slug":"michigan-flyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/08\/michigan-flyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Flyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganflyer.com\/\">Michigan Flyer<\/a> 344, in transit from East Lansing to the Detroit Airport (DTW).  So far, I&#8217;m happy.  Wireless internet is available on the bus, and there are maybe one or two power-outlets (125 volts @ 60Hz) if you look carefully.  So far, it&#8217;s been a better experience then catching a connecting flight to DTW.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict so far: recommended.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: So on my return trip, there was no internet.  I suspect this might have been because the lights and TVs were turned off, but I am not sure.  Also, I had to wait around 3 hours for the bus to show, so I didn&#8217;t get home until 1 AM.  Not good.  On the other hand, <strong>no delays or rescheduling<\/strong>.  The airline industry is in a crisis right now, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/03\/AR2007100300875.html\">about one in four flights are delayed<\/a>.  Busses are more predictable.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2008-10-19 5:48 AM: No internet this time either; the driver said it went out last night and hasn&#8217;t been fixed yet.  The power-outlets still work however. (And during a stop I was able to check my email over hotel-wifi that leaked into the bus.)  This time the bus-schedule matched up very well to my flight schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing this on Michigan Flyer 344, in transit from East Lansing to the Detroit Airport (DTW). So far, I&#8217;m happy. Wireless internet is available on the bus, and there are maybe one or two power-outlets (125 volts @ 60Hz) if you look carefully. So far, it&#8217;s been a better experience then catching a connecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52,51],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-flying","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}