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Re:I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change rea... by neuronic on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:02AM (#20083824)
What? Of course there is low cost train travel. It is garbage, but it exists.

https://www.flixtrain.com/

However, if you want to go Hamburg-Munich on an ICE (better than flying imo IF (!) everything works) and you do not have purchased a "BahnCard" and you do not book far in advance then it is very expensive.

2nd class ICE ride on that track in 2 weeks is 153€, flex, one way. For that money you get a return flight.

If you can be 100% sure to make it to one exact train you can go for ca. 50€. [1] Risk of failing to catch that train is pretty high though.

[1] https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/dn?revia=yes&exi...

Re:I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change rea... by Symbiote on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:34AM (#20084272)
You are comparing a flexible train ticket against an inflexible plane ticket.

The flexible plane ticket is probably 3-10x the price, depending on the airline.