Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence

Re:Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence by DaedPsyker on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:53PM (#25421533)

Nothing to do with the planes themselves. Basically Ryanair business practice forcing competitors to up their game resulted in an ultra-competitive slim margin industry.

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Re:Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence by iso1210 on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:01PM (#25421661)

On top of that many smaller cities actually paid airlines to fly to their muicipal airport. The idea that Brest would pay €2000 a day to fly 200 passengers from London to Brest, and those passengers would spend far more than €10 each in the local economy.

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Re:Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence by bpodgursky on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:20PM (#25426576)

There's no particular reason they couldn't have paid for a subsidized train route to get the same volume of visitors.

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Re:Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence by Leherenn on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:24AM (#25428872)

Convenience? There's the Channel to cross so you have to go through Paris and Dover. A <1h flight becomes a 7+h train ride.

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Re:Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence by bpodgursky on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:29PM (#25433273)

Of course, but that's just an argument for why planes will win, not why an airport-specific tourism subsidy helped planes win.

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