Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25%

Re:Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger ... by ISL on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:45PM (#37005638)

Especially if that service reached PAE, SEA, PDX airports. There's a ton of SEA->PDX flights.

shows 23 unique aircraft flying SEA->PDX today and 32 unique aircraft flying PDX->SEA

At ~$80/seat one-way and ~80 passengers/flight, that's >$100M/yr in revenue.

Existing trains take 3.5 hr for the journey. Existing flights take 1 hr for the flight + time spent in security, so trains aren't that far off.

Furthermore, there are ~30,000 cars traveling each way each day along I-5 between Seattle and Portland (https://www.chehalisbasinstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/201...) .

Speedy train service really would make a difference.

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Re:Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger ... by lostlogin on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:23PM (#37006083)

Any idea of the cost of that commute (multiplied by 30,000)?

There must be a business case in this surely, even if it’s worked out based on minimum wage as that’s a lot of commuters.

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