• Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    It’s faster

    Apart from long distances, that’s true only if you count flight time. To take a plane, you need to drive to the airport (which is far from the city), show up at least 2 hours before your flight, go through check-in, wait in line and do the reverse on arrival; and if there’s a sudden storm or something you gotta wait on the runway for another 3 hours. Trains take you from one city center to another city centre, you need to show up 20 minutes before departure and there’s no check-in (unless you live in Canada).

    and cheaper

    Artificially cheaper, planes are subsidized, trains are not. When you buy a plane ticket, you’re actually paying for only a fraction of the real price.