Study: Domestic flights in Germany have fallen 50% compared to 2019
Study: Domestic flights in Germany have fallen 50% compared to 2019
Good news. If the trains would be reliable instead.
Meanwhile in Canada, trains are not only etwas spät, they are extra spät.
Lack of food, water and toilets: Via Rail passengers fume after being stranded 10 hours
As a Canadian, I'm envious. We have 11 daily flights between our two biggest cities, taking 1,5 hour. Or we have 6 daily trains that takes 5 to 6 hours. And freight has priority.
I know Germans like to whine about their trains being late, and AFAIK it's deteriorating, so they are right to expect better. However, they still have the option and that must help in reducing the number of internal flights.
It sure is complaining on a high level. But not complaining would mean to accept it.
It's also symptomatic for all the other deteriorating infrastructure and services (streets, bridges, power lines, non existing high speed internet, schools / equipment, public agencies, and so on and so on). All due to cost cutting, while at the same time taxes and prices increased. Those 16 years of Merkel (conservatives) ruined so much and left us completely unprepared for modern problems. And now the same geniuses blame the greens for not fixing it all in three and a half years.
Just swap the managers of the airlines with he Bahn, and soon there will be cheap connections all across Europe 4 times a day for 20 euros with competing train lines.
I've read that as "domestic fights" and thought "good for them".