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It’s more comfortable to be on a train than a flight and people are happy taking ten hour plus flights no problem.
by chrisseaton 4y ago
It’s more comfortable to be on a train than a flight and people are happy taking ten hour plus flights no problem.
- Aachen 4y agoTo be fair, you also get about three to four times the distance per minute out of it (850km/h pretty much the whole way as the crow flies vs 250 average if you're lucky plus curves). To be clear, I find it absurd that airplane companies are still allowed to sell tickets without pricing in externalities for trips with good and high-speed train connections like Paris–Madrid. However, for actually going somewhere far away there just isn't really another choice but to take that plane. Your only other choice is to never go there at all, or take out weeks of travel for a ship or something. It's still too cheap, at least those that go regularly can also afford for Climeworks to undo their environmental pollution, so I hate to be defending air travel here, but 10h flights are a different ball game than 10h train rides.
- dieortin 4y agoThe Paris-Madrid connection is not really good though, as you have to go all the way to the east of Spain and pass through Barcelona before heading west towards Madrid. Luckily, there are some lines under construction that will connect Spain to France through Irún, and which should make things much better.
- rootusrootus 4y agoOnly because there are no viable alternatives to a 10 hour flight. But the alternative to a 10 hour train ride is a 1-2 hour flight.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI don't happily take ten hour plus flights, I take them because if I need to go somewhere that takes that long by plane there's no viable alternative.