They’re fighting an uphill battle, since they have to pay taxes while the airlines are excempt. In addition to that, they have to pay for the rail infrastructure, while airplanes are free to poison the atmosphere while externalizing the costs for that.
Thank you for looking up the concrete numbers!
As an Austrian, I’d love to have only 6.7%. How did they manage that? Austria is still somewhere around 8% last time I checked.
Good, that makes the railways more competitive.
Considering how comically low these fines are, we all know the answer to that one.
Austria also has a law like that, and it has been a complete shitshow. There have been fines for someone wearing a scarf while riding a bike and for someone at work dressed up in a body suit in front of the shop for advertisement reasons (like a mascot).
When the law went into effect, the newspapers reported that there were about ten muslim women currently wearing coverings in the whole country.
Rejected asylum just means that there is no humanitarian reason why they couldn’t return to their home country, not that they couldn’t fit into Europe.
For example, I know a young man who came here from Tajikistan. His asylum request was rejected, but because that process took so long, he had already built up a whole life here. He has a lot of local friends, a girlfriend and a got full education in gastronomy, where he is working full time. He got a special permit to remain here due to support from local people.
The youth doesn’t vote.
Well, I meant that they all belong to the same group, fascists.
They’re the same people.
Breakfast is included with these Nightjets, although it’s pretty minimal (two rolls with butter and jam and a cup of coffee or tea). On the plane I got a sandwich with awful bread and a single thin slice of cheese in it.
The train is also an exercise in waiting, since there are about 4 hours before and after it’s bed time. However, it’s not so much time lost, because you have a fixed space and don’t have to move around so much like on an airport, so it’s easy to open up a laptop and get some work done.
Last weekend, a few friends of mine and I made a trip halfway through Europe. I took the plane because I couldn’t get a ticket on the train any more, the others took the night jet (Austrian train service driving through the night with beds on board).
My 1.5h flight was delayed, and it was a big drama with connecting flights etc. It was by 5 minutes.
My friends’ route was through Germany. Besides them needing 14h according to the regular schedule, they had a delay of 3h. There was no special accident or anything, the train just had to stop on the track a few times and in some sections it went at walking speed, probably because the track is in such a bad shape.
This is such a miserable experience. The price was about the same, btw.
Well, you’re right that these temperatures will be normal in three years.
The UK always was a problem within the decision bodies of the EU. The country even sent staunch anti-EU politicians to the parliament, where they did nothing but rake in money and cause chaos, disrespecting everyone there.
The EU is much more free in making decisions now.
In this case, it’s only going to be used by employees of that company due to the stations on that track, so I don’t see a problem.
I personally do see a problem with companies building their facilities in the middle of nowhere and then expecting the public transport network to figure it out.
Is there a legal basis for this? The article doesn’t even go into this topic.
Meanwhile, Austria reached step 6 in the early 2000s and is now at step 7, the Nazis are polling at number 1 with a comfortable distance to the next party.
They’d safe a few dollars over buying it from someone else.
It’s more specific than that.
My country has had a few right-wing politicians with regular hair that didn’t do politics very well either.