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> Did you compare to a local flight within the EU? No. Thanks for the explanation.
Then again, it's not just a EU thing: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/airlines-are-padding-flight...
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One assumes that since it has an LH flight number, anyone who wants to pay for it could book the flight.
Possibly, but not necessarily (based only on the flight number). Fun fact, all flights (from commercial airlines) have a flight number, but those are not always sold. They might be charters or ferry/repositioning flights. (And while it might make sense to sell a repositioning flight - sometimes it's done on short notice or the airline doesn't want to assign cabin crew to those flights)
I don't get the point of this flight. A train between the two will be around two hours, so an hour slower than the plane, but when you add travel to airports, it's probably faster, and the trains are more comfortable (and you can work from them).
Frankfurt is a major Lufthansa hub. There is a train station at Frankfurt Airport, but a plane connection would be airside, and for connections having to travel to city center possibly with bags is a minus. These days there is onboard wifi on most planes.
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This makes sense to me. The shortest commercial flight I ever took was from HOU to IAH†, a flight distance of 24mi/39km. I was surprised how long it took. At first I thought it was because of traffic, but a member of the flight crew told me, "We go low and slow." †This was back when Continental was all mad about the parking situation at IAH, and so if you had an outbound flight from IAH, it would let you park for fre…
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/SCM25/history/20220504/2... 15 minutes in the air and doesn't go over 3500ft What were they flying back on that route back then?
I can tell you that the seats were all on one side of the plane. It was a proper Continental craft. Not a puddle jumper like I've been on going to remote places in the northwest.
Frankfurt Strasbourg (220km) San Francisco San Salito [2] (90km)
The point of these are connections. If you are already at the airport, checked-in, luggage registered, you can just as well take the flight closer to your destination. Not saying the makes ecological sense, but I don't understand the outrage towards Lufthansa. Blame the MEP paying for these flights with your tax money and being bad role models contradicting the policies they are voting for.
[1] https://thepointsguy.com/news/longest-shortest-united-flight... [2] https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2017/09/29...
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If there are direct trains there is simply no excuse. Frankly, wherever there are fast alternatives, I wonder if the days of airlines are numbered. Push through rail opportunities like maybe more runs with smaller trains, better synchronization of schedules, quick connections, faster trains etc..
Sure, but just to add a bit to it there were multiple terror attacks on trains in Europe in recent years. In Germany there was this knife attack just a few months ago, as an example. You also run into some annoying folks on public transport from time to time even if they're not trying to kill you. In those pricey plane seats they're among themselves. This is the best explanation I can come up with why they're doing i…
Train travel also has multiple classes of service. And in some ways it's easier to keep people in their own half on a long train than on an A319 where they're only separated by a few feet and a curtain.
So I guess I don't see your point here? Unless you're claiming that terrorists travel first class on trains but can't afford it on planes.
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Frankfurt is a major Lufthansa hub. There is a train station at Frankfurt Airport, but a plane connection would be airside, and for connections having to travel to city center possibly with bags is a minus. These days there is onboard wifi on most planes.
The ICE train going south towards Basel stops at the Frankfurt airport. The minus is that there is probably no train connecting directly to Strasbourg, but it's also not far away - take the stop at Offenburg and a train or shuttle bus to Strasbourg would do it.