alt Hacker NewsPresumably there are no flights from Paris to Munich then?
There are. A flight is about an hour and a half, a train is about 5 hours. Far more people fly between the two every day than take a train.
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nottorp • last Wednesday at 10:08 AM
Isn't the flight cheaper as well?
A 5x disparity is still a lot more than a 2x disparity. In fact, considerably less than 2x given the overhead time of traveling to the airport, security, boarding, etc.
How many people would pay 8x the ticket price for a 45 minute flight from Paris to Munich (The Concorde was ~8x the ticket price of economy subsonic flight tickets)?