2023-07-20 06:18:00
European travel by train remains on average twice as expensive as that by plane, according to a study revealed Thursday by the organization Greenpeace. The prices of rail travel in Belgium are on average 2.6 times higher than those of flights, which places the country on the podium of the worst European students, considers the NGO.
In its study, Greenpeace analyzed nine times between April 25 and July 12 the prices by train or plane of 112 journeys between 27 European countries. The routes chosen concern distances of less than 1,500 kilometers and journeys of less than 24 hours by train.
Research by the environmental NGO shows that rail travel is on average twice as expensive as air travel. Flights offer cheaper prices on nearly seven out of ten analyzed routes, and only 23 European routes are almost always cheaper by train.
Up to ten times more greenhouse gas emissions
In Belgium, more particularly, the journeys analyzed to other European cities show that the rail offers a cost 2.6 times higher than the plane. Only the route between Brussels and Hamburg is systematically cheaper by train. While a rail trip from the Belgian capital to Madrid is 15 times more expensive than the same journey between airports.
Greenpeace denounces this situation, and more specifically the low-cost airlines which notably offer flights with stopovers, which are cheaper for the consumer. “These flights result in up to ten times more greenhouse gas emissions,” argues the NGO. This asks European governments to set up “climate tickets”, subscriptions allowing cross-border transport by less polluting means. It also proposes that the subsidies granted to airlines and airports be abolished.
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