Re: Air France eyes move to railways

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Re: Air France eyes move to railways

Posted on: 5 Jul 2008 21:02:12 GMT

On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:08:52 +0000, John Levine wrote:

>>On French radio this morning they said it would be mainly aimed at
>>taking passengers to the air terminals.
>
> That's not inconsistent, since there are TGV stations adjacent to the
> airports at CDG and Lyon Satolas. Rail/air interlining has been popular
> in Germany for a long time, after all.
>
>>This has come about as the TGV (tres grand vitesse) high speed train
>>which travels at 300 mph
>
> It's 300 kph, not mph, in revenue service, actually, but that's still
> about as fast as a commuter prop plane.

And it's 300 km/h, not kph :-)

R

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