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For travel advisors who have been in the industry for a few decades then, the return to rail is a bit of a throwback.

After all, it wasn’t that long ago that the train was pretty much the only budget-friendly way to get from city A to B to C, in top travel destinations around the world.

Then along came the budget airlines. Discount carriers and LCCs are credited with opening up not just new destinations and new markets, but also making quick-hop getaways – especially within Europe – extremely easy, fast and absurdly affordable.

Since the debut of carriers like Ryanair in the mid-1980s (now Europe’s largest airline group, with a fleet of 594 aircraft), and surging ahead…