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“Bus as plane”: variations of this have been happening (exceptionally) for years across the world, although more commonly using trains to replace planes (and it would be a coup to see e.g. Easyjet cross-sell e.g. Lumo tickets, or vice versa, or indeed trainline integrate to airline platforms to create multimodal trips).
Some principle railway stations (in some cities) even have 3 letter IATA codes assigned and shown on airline industry reservation platforms like Sabre, Gallieo etc., often with Q as a first letter since that’s less common to see in airport names.
And Amtrak has for many years used “bustitution” and buslines to provide connectivity into some long distance passenger services, especially California (Thruway Motorcoach service, booked as a rail ticket)