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Re: Why Families Don't Ride Trains (or airplanes)
Author: Alvah Crocker
Date: 01-17-2015 - 15:01
Max Wyss Wrote:
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> It is really moot and dumb to speculate about HSR
> fares so many years before they become available.
> Maybe there will be attractive family fares… who
> knows.
>
> If you decide to drive, fine; that is your
> decision, and nobody should object to it.
>
> FWIW, through-checking of baggage from a train
> station to a plane and inverse has been around for
> more than two decades in Switzerland (called
> Fly-Baggage). It is now 24 hour before the flight
> leaves that you have to check in; a few years ago,
> when the SBB still had decent baggage service, you
> could check in, and your baggage was on the same
> train(s) as you were travelling to the airport.
>
> In fact, United Express and other airlines woould
> be happy to hand over that not so profitable short
> distance business to the HSR operator. (another
> FWIW: since the high speed line between Frankfurt
> and Köln opened, there are no more (Lufthansa)
> flights between Stuttgart and Frankfurt and
> Stuttgart and Köln; you still can book, and you
> will have LH flight numbers, but you will sit in a
> reserved space of the high-speed trains, and your
> checked baggage will be on the same train as well.
I think you miss the point.
You speak of things that the average citizen won't be taking advantage of.
You speak of all the cool things Europe does, well, fine this isn't
Europe.
The average user, if any, will still require a rental car at the end to go to Aunt Tillies funeral, or whatever.
I don't think I am dissing HSR, I am just trying to point out that, Joe Citizen, has no use for this program what so ever.
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> It is really moot and dumb to speculate about HSR
> fares so many years before they become available.
> Maybe there will be attractive family fares… who
> knows.
>
> If you decide to drive, fine; that is your
> decision, and nobody should object to it.
>
> FWIW, through-checking of baggage from a train
> station to a plane and inverse has been around for
> more than two decades in Switzerland (called
> Fly-Baggage). It is now 24 hour before the flight
> leaves that you have to check in; a few years ago,
> when the SBB still had decent baggage service, you
> could check in, and your baggage was on the same
> train(s) as you were travelling to the airport.
>
> In fact, United Express and other airlines woould
> be happy to hand over that not so profitable short
> distance business to the HSR operator. (another
> FWIW: since the high speed line between Frankfurt
> and Köln opened, there are no more (Lufthansa)
> flights between Stuttgart and Frankfurt and
> Stuttgart and Köln; you still can book, and you
> will have LH flight numbers, but you will sit in a
> reserved space of the high-speed trains, and your
> checked baggage will be on the same train as well.
I think you miss the point.
You speak of things that the average citizen won't be taking advantage of.
You speak of all the cool things Europe does, well, fine this isn't
Europe.
The average user, if any, will still require a rental car at the end to go to Aunt Tillies funeral, or whatever.
I don't think I am dissing HSR, I am just trying to point out that, Joe Citizen, has no use for this program what so ever.
