Across the continent, flights are priced at a fraction of the cost of train tickets, hampering the growing number of people who want to travel sustainably. The big question is: why?
I think that’s an unusually favourable trip towards the train, tbh. Firstly, I’m finding plane tickets to Paris that are similar to the price you have listed for train here. Secondly Amsterdam-Paris is a solid connection with the old Thalys/Eurostar. Try something similar with Marseille, Lyon or any city that isn’t on the direct path and you’ll need to pay train fares to Paris then to wherever you’re actually going, when you can probably get an easy-jet or ryanair for like 50 bucks and the total train fare is 2/300€.
Also it’s still cheaper to get in my car (alone) than pay that train fare to Paris, disregarding parking fees in Paris of course since that’s very expensive, but you can park& ride.
Yeah, I’m just saying that’s not really typical or representative of every day people’s journeys that aren’t capital<->capital, then the train starts losing way too much in terms of costs, that’s the shit part, I think a lot of people would be fine traveling by train more but when on top of having to compete with the speed of flight and the convenience of driving, but also costs more then that’s fucked, we need to subsidize them more and tax airlines up the wazoo.
I think that’s an unusually favourable trip towards the train, tbh. Firstly, I’m finding plane tickets to Paris that are similar to the price you have listed for train here. Secondly Amsterdam-Paris is a solid connection with the old Thalys/Eurostar. Try something similar with Marseille, Lyon or any city that isn’t on the direct path and you’ll need to pay train fares to Paris then to wherever you’re actually going, when you can probably get an easy-jet or ryanair for like 50 bucks and the total train fare is 2/300€.
Also it’s still cheaper to get in my car (alone) than pay that train fare to Paris, disregarding parking fees in Paris of course since that’s very expensive, but you can park& ride.
Indeed, i chose this route because i traveled it quite often.
I used google flights and NS international to find the ticket prices, the price of €301 was listed as the cheapest direct flight.
Yeah, I’m just saying that’s not really typical or representative of every day people’s journeys that aren’t capital<->capital, then the train starts losing way too much in terms of costs, that’s the shit part, I think a lot of people would be fine traveling by train more but when on top of having to compete with the speed of flight and the convenience of driving, but also costs more then that’s fucked, we need to subsidize them more and tax airlines up the wazoo.