We need a direct high speed line between Paris and Frankfurt. The part between Paris and Reims is already built, but then everything else is still to be created. This 320 km/h line would go through Luxembourg, sometimes stopping in Longwy in France and even more often in Trier and Mainz in Germany. The course being about 480 km long, it should be done in about 1 hour and 45 minutes on nonstop trips.
I wonder what the rules for delays are. One reason for feeder flights rather than feeder trains is that the airlines used to say “tough shit, you’re on your own” if you were delayed on a connecting train, but would provide you with an alternate solution if you were delayed on a connecting flight.
SAS and SJ in Sweden used to have a partnership and provide a way to pay extra to get the kind of guarantee you need, but they discontinued it. So we’re back to it being a huge gamble to use a connecting train.
This would only work from an environmental perspective if it allows them to cut flights, otherwise it’s going to have a negligible impact on emissions
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We need a direct high speed line between Paris and Frankfurt. The part between Paris and Reims is already built, but then everything else is still to be created. This 320 km/h line would go through Luxembourg, sometimes stopping in Longwy in France and even more often in Trier and Mainz in Germany. The course being about 480 km long, it should be done in about 1 hour and 45 minutes on nonstop trips.
I wonder what the rules for delays are. One reason for feeder flights rather than feeder trains is that the airlines used to say “tough shit, you’re on your own” if you were delayed on a connecting train, but would provide you with an alternate solution if you were delayed on a connecting flight.
SAS and SJ in Sweden used to have a partnership and provide a way to pay extra to get the kind of guarantee you need, but they discontinued it. So we’re back to it being a huge gamble to use a connecting train.
This would only work from an environmental perspective if it allows them to cut flights, otherwise it’s going to have a negligible impact on emissions