Now the state railway sock puppet on LinkedIn, to me:
“I think that you systematically overestimate the difficulties by travelling by train and underestimate the complexity and total price for an airtrip.”
I’m so totally done with people in this damned industry.
My social media, my inbox full of people struggling with rail booking. But ah no. No problem. I’m actually underestimating the complexity of air trips.
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •And damn it, I’ve tested more than 800 trains in 30 countries’ railways in the past 2 years in #CrossBorderRail - thankfully mostly on Interrail that simplified a lot. I’m pretty good at this by now, *but I get stuck and confused over and over*
And this dude says I’m over-estimating the complexity? Aaaaggghhhh
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •Komplexitätskarte des europäischen ÖVs: 85% dieser Reisen bzw. Wege wurden maximal zwei Tage vorher geplant. So sieht das dann aus. Länder, die im Sommer für die Planung des Besuches bei Verwandten zu Weihnachten werben, werden eher gemieden.
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •to be fair, he does have to file the flight plan and do all the pre flight checks and make sure he has enough fuel, and an alternative airport for his private plane he flies...
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •i find that people tend to disappear when you put the burden of proof on them
Asking "how many real-world examples do you have?" is far quicker than trying to disprove something yourself
but I do imagine it's exhausting for you. Your replies on Bluesky are bad enough so I hate to think what they're like on LinkedIn.
You need an army of interns at the Jon Worth Institute to handle them all for you
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •We try to always take direct trains, because the more connections, the more missed connections are likely.
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •@patrick yeah sure, I meant it as an illustration of what you were saying, not "you're doing it wrong". I love train travel and try to avoid flying wherever possible, but they don't make it easy.
That said, to your original point I think a lot of people do think of flying as just airport to airport and not door to door. Still needs to be easier and cheaper. The 49€ ticket here helps a bit.