{"id":116126,"date":"2023-08-16T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T04:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/fed-up-with-airports-long-distance-trains-take-on-air-travel-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T04:45:04","slug":"fed-up-with-airports-long-distance-trains-take-on-air-travel-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/fed-up-with-airports-long-distance-trains-take-on-air-travel-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fed up with airports\u2019: Long-distance trains take on air travel in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116126\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nNew long-distance train connections are providing an alternative to air travel between European countries, and demand for this environmentally friendly mode of transport is soaring. But there is still plenty of room for improvement on the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris-Vienna night train has sold 70 percent of all available tickets since it launched in December 2021 \u2013 practically a full house for each of its three weekly return runs. The Nightjet service, run by Austrian national provider OBB, pulls out from Paris\u2019 Gare de l\u2019Est at 7:30pm and arrives in the Austrian capital Vienna at 10am the following morning, with the cheapest tickets starting at just \u20ac29.90. It is one of many new lines that have opened across Europe reconnecting major cities with direct train routes \u2013 and more are on the horizon. Italian provider TrenItalia hopes to launch a direct Paris-Madrid line by the end of 2024, following what it describes as the \u201cincredible\u201d success of its lines connecting Paris, Lyon, Turin and Milan that were launched in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A sleeper train between Paris and Berlin is scheduled to start running at the end of 2023, along with a new high-speed connection between the two capitals launching in 2024 that will reduce the current 10-hour journey time down to seven. Interest in long-distance rail travel has been growing steadily for the past eight years, says rail expert Mark Smith, the owner of the train travel website seat61.com. Now, he says, growing numbers of train travellers have two main motivations. \u201cThey\u2019re fed up with the airport and airline experience, and they want to cut their carbon footprint,\u201d Smith says.<\/p>\n<p>The environmental arguments for train travel are compelling. A two-hour flight from Paris to Vienna results in 419.6kg of carbon emissions, compared with 41.5kg when travelling on the Nightjet, according to OBB calculations. But there is a lack of political action to prioritise the eco-friendly mode of transport. Although a French law introduced in May banned short-haul flights on environmental grounds if there was a rail alternative that took less than two hours, the law had so many loopholes that only three routes were impacted.<\/p>\n<p>It is still possible to fly from Paris to Lyon or Bordeaux, even though high-speed rail equivalents exist, and it is relatively cheap to do so. A 2023 Greenpeace report found that train tickets on cross-border routes in Europe are on average twice as expensive as flight tickets, in part due to tax exemptions granted to airlines. It was the rise of budget air travel in the 1990s that introduced the idea of quick, cheap trips that could fit into a weekend and wiped out Europe\u2019s night trains, which were largely considered unprofitable.<\/p>\n<p>Routes and pricing are often defined by local markets, says Jon Worth, who runs the Cross Border Rail project investigating train links between European countries. \u201cThe railway industry in Europe is still heavily national, and they think predominantly about the services they will run in their own national markets,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>French provider SNCF runs just two fast trains per day with the most expensive tickets reaching a profitable \u20ac250 for a one-way journey. On the same route, dozens of flights run day and night for a fraction of the price. And yet, the trains nearly always run at high capacity, especially during summertime, when seats sell out months in advance. The same is true on the Paris-Vienna sleeper line, where \u2013 almost two years after the route was introduced \u2013 most berths are snapped up as soon as they are released for sale. Increasing demand for train travel \u201ccertainly hasn&#8217;t come from government and it certainly hasn&#8217;t come from train companies. It&#8217;s come from grassroots,\u201d says Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20230815-fed-up-with-airports-long-distance-trains-take-on-air-travel-in-europe\">France24<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/fed-up-with-airports-long-distance-trains-take-on-air-travel-in-europe\/\">\u2018Fed up with airports\u2019: Long-distance trains take on air travel in Europe<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,696,11083,4355],"class_list":["post-116126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-europe","tag-long-distange","tag-train"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}