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Ticket comparison shows: Traveling by train in Europe is more expensive than flying

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When traveling through Europe, the climate-friendly train is often more expensive than the plane. That says the environmental organization Greenpeace. (archive image)

The train is 71 percent more expensive for customers than the climate-damaging flight connections, the organization announced on Thursday. Of the 31 connections with a start or end point in Germany, the train was more expensive in half of the cases.

The testers recorded the largest price difference on the Barcelona-London route, which should cost up to 384 euros (about 369 francs) by train. That is 30 times more than by plane with a ticket price of 12.99 euros. The trains on the Hamburg-Brussels and Hamburg-Munich routes were always cheaper.

Greenpeace traffic expert Marisa Reiserer argued for a European kerosene tax of 50 cents per litre, which would generate an annual revenue of 46.2 billion euros. These funds should be channeled to the rail infrastructure. Reiserer said: “More and more people want to travel by train and don’t put up with flights, but the lack of kerosene taxes and other climate-damaging subsidies for the airline industry are distorting prices. This is an emergency landing for many good intentions and climate protection.”

(SDA)

Source: Blick

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