Re:Bosch opens German chip plant
by carlmr on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:55AM
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Now we're working on restricting short distance air travel within Europe, meaning large airports like this one may become too costly to keep running, if it can't be utilized enough.
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Re:Bosch opens German chip plant
by 74d-fe6-2c6 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @07:01AM
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I'd say this development would rather cause fewer small airports in Germany and hence benefit hubs like BER that are being reached by train. overall though it'll cause fewer air travellers as domestic air transport is breaking away. then again more international air travel will move from smaller German airports to BER.
True, that's a good point.
Restrict how? You'll never restrict it to Eastern Europe, for example. Eastern Europe has almost no high speed rail, so if you cut off "short" flights, travel that would take 4 hours by plane (1 hour to the starting airport, 1 hour in the airport, 1 hour flight, 1 hour from the destination airport) would become 8-12-16+ hours by train for many places.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/flight-rail-four-hours-...
Right now it's still only France, but German politicians are talking about adopting a similar strategy.
The French model actually aims to ban flights that have a sub 4h train connection. Meaning the Eastern European nations without high speed rail would have fewer flights affected if this becomes EU policy.
It would cut a lot of flights to neighboring countries, and domestically in Germany.
It's actually amusing because the airport lobbyists were responsible for cuts in train infrastructure funding in Germany. Reminds me a bit of how Germany killed it's fiber investment to accomodate for private cable TV back in the day.
Or nuclear power plants for the benefit of gas traders and entrepreneurs of heavily subsidised green energy technologies.
Re:Bosch opens German chip plant
by andrewxdiamond on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:19PM
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Interesting that this model incentivizes railroads to build more.
A railroad investor could look at existing flights and accurately project how many passengers they can expect, since flights would be blocked the second they open their carriage doors.
Spain has also a similar policy in the works. For travels that are covered by train and are 2.5h or less, no plane travel is allowed.
Re:Bosch opens German chip plant
by raverbashing on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:23AM
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That's the minority of flights, even today
Quite simply, if you're under 4h train connection you're far enough to justify a flight.
BER is pretty safe on flight numbers.