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Still have airport security, that stale recycled airplane air, no dining car, and the crappy little airplane toilet. A nice train is still a better experience I

• schroeding 4y ago
  That's pretty much it for me too, those things are there regardless of class. Also you have no turbulences in a train, also no safety announcements :D
  • dzhiurgis 4y ago
    FWIW Emirates have a bar and a shower, obvs not on intercity flights tho. Long range flights are so amazing you don’t really wanna leave at all.
• mathverse 4y ago
  It's not about the journey but about how fast you can get from point A to point B.
  • samatman 4y ago
    If that were true, there would be no first class, because paying 3x as much to shave at most 2% of the journey time doesn't add up. Instead, some people who can afford it buy a nicer experience. By extension, people are also willing to add some time to a journey for a nicer experience. Taking the train from Brussels to London is neither cheaper nor faster, but I can't even imagine choosing the plane unless I was desperately skint or it was an emergency where two hours matters (somehow).
• gruez 4y ago
  >that stale recycled airplane air Airplanes definitely have a smell to them, but not because the air is "stale". Apparently the air is changed quite often >Most aircraft cabin air is [...] completely changed 20 to 30 times per hour https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-clean-and-safe-is-a-planes-cabin-air https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-clean-and-safe-is-a-pla...