> There's really no reason a human would try to fly instead of take a train. My anecdote: Some time ago I did a lot of business trips around Europe. All busin

> There's really no reason a human would try to fly instead of take a train. My anecdote: Some time ago I did a lot of business trips around Europe. All business travel was organized by a subcontractor. They sometimes wanted to route me through a crazy amount of short airplane hops to get me to the destination. Sometimes even when a direct flight was available they couldn't put me on it because they didn't have a contract with the operator or something like that. For some reason they strongly favored air travel and fell back on other means of transport only when there was absolutely no way to get there by air. One some occassions I was supposed to do 4 or 5 500 km short hops, which would mean a whole wasted day of basically waiting at airports and boarding airplanes. In such cases I just said no, paid out of my own pocket for a train ticket or took my own car. And then spent next 3 months doing paperwork to get travel expenses reimbursed.