Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report
Summary
Nearly half of the busiest international flight routes in the European Union do not offer easy or complete train ticket booking options, making it harder for travelers to choose trains over planes. A report by Transport & Environment found that booking train tickets for many popular routes is either difficult or only possible through limited channels, which limits the use of trains as a greener travel option.Key Facts
- Almost 50% of the EU’s busiest international flight routes have difficult or impossible train ticket booking options.
- Some popular routes like Lisbon-Madrid and Barcelona-Milan cannot be booked at all through train operator websites.
- On 20% of routes, passengers cannot buy a single ticket covering the entire train journey.
- On 27% of routes, tickets are only available from one train operator, limiting choices.
- 86% of train routes with competition do not sell tickets for competitor services on dominant operators’ sites.
- 61% of long-distance rail travelers avoided trips because booking train tickets was too hard.
- More than 40% of people said easier train ticket booking would make them travel more by rail.
- The European Commission plans to introduce a single ticketing system to simplify cross-border train travel.
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