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Recent history is full of examples of trains that killed air routes. Trains took 80% market share from Paris to Lyon and 100% to Brussels. Similar in Spain and
by jeffbee 5mo ago
Recent history is full of examples of trains that killed air routes. Trains took 80% market share from Paris to Lyon and 100% to Brussels. Similar in Spain and Japan.
- cguess 5mo agoTrains are absolutely better but France also outlawed most of those short haul flights. https://www.euronews.com/2024/07/06/frances-short-haul-flight-ban-one-year-on-has-it-encouraged-more-people-to-take-the-train https://www.euronews.com/2024/07/06/frances-short-haul-fligh...
- jeffbee 5mo agoThis mostly codified established reality. TGV had overwhelming Paris-Lyon market share by 1981 and Paris-Bordeaux by 2018, years before the ban.