Spain’s announcement of plans to switch domestic flights to rail services is another step on the journey to increased intermodal activity. This follows similar steps taken in France last year and will undoubtedly be replicated over the next few years in other countries as the pressure grows on carbon emissions.
There is of course the obligatory “get out of jail” card around connections to hub airports that link with international routes which will be open to all sorts of interpretations by airlines and airports. However, in theory any existing flights that compete against a two-and-a-half-hour train journey in Spain will be at risk.
Taking that two and a half hour criteria and accepting that train times can vary dramatically across Europe we’ve applied a two-hundred-mile criteria to identify what routes could be impacted by the imposition of a similar constraint in other countries. We’ve also assumed that over water sectors such as those between the Balearics and the…
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