How trains can replace planes: What are air-rail alliances? 

Simplifying routes also has the added benefit of reducing airport congestion for arriving / departing aircraft. Newark International would be DRAMATICALLY simplified and sped along if an Amtrak ticket could be booked in conjunction with an airline. The Airport even sits right on the Northeast Corridor, you can get to Philadelphia or NYC in like 45 minutes on Amtrak from Newark International

Absolutely incredible job on this video. Very thorough and concise and detail-oriented. Looking forward to seeing more alliances like this #jetblue Buffalo to Toronto

Another way this could help cities are where the existing hubs are landlocked or hemmed in by existing development, making expansion difficult. Being able to get passengers to a nearby regional airport which may have unused capacity and/or expansion ability could allow the main hub to function well with the growth and peak demand taken by regional airports. While not extremely convenient for business travelers, many leisure travelers would benefit, and many leisure trips occur during high demand periods when the extra travel is less crucial. Being able to do a single checkin without carting luggage would be a big advantage for these travelers as they often have larger luggage and are less familiar with traveling and/or families with extras.

Switzerland has had this for over 20 years and it was awesome!

I love the integrated Air-Rail concept, and I love european airports which have full stations built in - Zurich is a great example. Which sort of negates your suggestion that "geography" is a barrier - I would suggest that the existence of a proper station at the airport is the biggest factor in making this work. Whilst checking in your luggage at your departure rail station sounds great - in practice it just adds too much complexity to the airline operation, and it often requires you to arrive too far in advance to make the timings work. For example, you used to be able to check-in and drop bags at Paddington station in London for departures from Heathrow - but it was cancelled many years ago. Start simple, and encourage airlines to offer integrated Air-Rail ticketing, with passengers carrying their own luggage to the airport.

love the stats! I would also consider looking at cost of emission per passenger/passenger mile

This is a pretty nice video, congrats!

Criminally underrated stuff. Gonna spread this vid around, you deserve all the views you can get.

What is interesting to note is, that an air-rail partnership between Lufthansa and DB existed in the 80s to the early 90s. Since in the US some airlines were run by railroads, I wouldn't be suprised if this existed there.

ngl I just randomly found this video after watching stuff on porter, but your last couple vids are hella interesting! Keep posting bro but also expand to tiktok + youtube shorts cause you;ll def expand your audience to aviation lovers! Subbed!

very interesting concept, I hope they do this in France, it's kind of done "non officially" as for Example Paris's main airoport Charles De Gaulle sits right on a TGV station but a smooth, direct route all on one website, maybe Air France and SNCF could work, plus there are lots of cities in the 200-500 km range around Paris so it would be perfect ! One thing I wanted to add, about your examples, I think to sell the idea in North america to rail companies, you would need the Hub to connect to multiple Not-Hubs to really justify investing ressources to make it happen, especially in places where there is no high speed rail or project ! I think at least

Are you using your phone for a mic? The quality is surprisingly good!

I love this concept! The car rental industry would have to adapt to make it work.

loved the video, but are you sure you can use Dutch Railways's (NS/Nederlandse Spoorwegen) logo in your thumbnail?

I think you make some very good points. When in Europe, I much prefer to take a train for many of the reasons you list. Yes, I’m a rail geek so that is part of it. I will take a plane for further distances than it’s convenient. That being said, I have to take slight issue with the Orlando-Brightline idea you pitch. I have not taken a Brightline yet, but I want to just because it’s a train. I may be going to Miami for a football game this fall so I may try to fly to MCO and take Brightline (or I may just drive from Atlanta to Orlando). But I don’t think it’s a sound business approach for Toronto to South Florida for AC to only serve MCO. MIA is a major hub and FLL is a very convenient option - I’ve almost always flown there from ATL and never used MIA. Some airline is going to serve that because there will be direct demand. As much as I love HSR, I will always opt for a flight from the US, direct to my destination city over a flight-rail connection. I’ve visited Paris multiple times. Twice, I’ve flown to Brussels (better award flights from ATL) and took Thalys (now Eurostar Red) to Paris Gare du Nord. But last summer, we flew direct to CDG and it was easier to arrive and hop and Uber to our hotel. There’s understand demand for such direct connectivity. I think your model works better when one market has much traffic than the other. But here, there’s likely demand to both Orlando - Disney - and Miami. I don’t think either customer set is going to be better served by a flight-rail connection. Something like FRA-DUS or Paris-Brussels works better on this model. By the way, good videos. I am not a die hard transit guy, but having traveled in Europe I see the efficacy of a robust transit network and, as mentioned, love rail. But I’m also an unashamed capitalists and small government guy so I have high standards for the appropriate use of taxpayer dollars. I like your tone in the videos I have seen that are a lot less arrogant and condescending than another leading urbanity/transit channel. Hope to see more of your stuff!

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A variation on this is airlines offering buses to nearby cities from their hub - especially if the nearby city is a hub of a rival airline. For example if you look for a flight on the Emirates website to Abu Dhabi - the sector from Dubai to Abu Dhabi is in fact a 90 bus journey. And it's often significantly cheaper than a direct flight to Abu Dhabi, and the journey time to Abu Dhabi city centre isn't that much longer than via Abu Dhabi airport. Since the bus is operated on behalf of Emirates - they tick you off as you board the bus, so the airline will know if you have completed the journey that you booked !

Alberta will never ever see a high speed rail line between Calgary and Edmonton. Too many business groups are dead seat against it from CP rail, bit oil and the airlines to name a few. Does not help that the Alberta Conservative Party tends to think the same way and they have been in power for decades.

Right. All we have to domis build it. Of course.

I there's definitely an upside to this in that it makes the adoption of passenger rail easier by having it work with airlines rather than in competition with them. But on the other hand having trains stations in airports negates two of passenger rail's advantages: convenient downtown location and not having to go through excessive security.

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I think another concept for Air-Rail alliances that would work would be a YVR-YXX HSR (Maglev ideally for speed (though not the ultra-high speed Transrapid nor SCMaglev type) and minimal maintenance though conventional express regional rail would be the minimum viable requirement IMO considering sharp curves that would likely be implemented) as dedicated services though IMO would be more to shift domestic flights to YXX while YVR be used more for international flights. The tracks would all be located in #Canada unlike the #Vancouver-#Seattle Air-Rail link concept which IMO would be better off NOT as dedicated services. If a #Vancouver-#Seattle HSR gets built, I doubt there would be a YVR station unless there is a YVR branch. If the Air-Rail link infrastructure is shared with other rail modes or utilizes an existing rail infrastructure used by other rail modes (least likely for Maglev, most likely for regional rail and HSR), then the Air-Rail link stations would all have fully sealed full height platform screen doors for not only safety but also security, so passengers don't need to exit and reenter security.

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