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Get Ready to Ditch Your Business Class Flight
Europe’s rail operators have ambitious plans to exploit the flight-shame phenomenon. They still need to make trains consistently convenient.
Let the train take the strain.
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Stepping off the Eurostar train at London’s glorious St. Pancras station is always a thrill, but on a recent Sunday evening it felt downright radical. Unusually, I’d started my journey more than 10 hours earlier and 600 miles (966 kilometers) away in Berlin.2
I was attending a summit on decarbonizing the economy organized by BloombergNEF and turning up by plane would have seemed hypocritical. Following Greta Thunberg’s example, I booked a train rather than the 90-minute flight.