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Train fares are up to 30 times more expensive than planes in Europe (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but most train journeys you would replace a flight with are way too long and arduous with the 49€ ticket because that only allows regional trains and not the high speed IC/ICE trains. Those are the ones that need to get cheaper if we want people to stop flying.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we had an inter-european ticket it could be more expensive and allow you to take high speed trains. It would be silly to give it the same restrictions that the German ticket has.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm just saying there are already flight journeys within Germany that could be replaced by train and there the same problem applies. I wasn't suggesting that a hypothetical European ticket would have similar restrictions.