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Some lessons learnt from Europe’s travel chaos (and some tips to help you get home)

By Jon on April 20, 2010

5 days into the volcano mess and the finger pointing is starting, some of it more and some of it less well argued. Charlemagne has an elegantly penned argument of why he will not comment, while EUObserver has a summary of the rants of Europe’s politicians. Alejandro meanwhile has a go at interpreting everything according [...]

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The hypocrisy of Europe’s railways: some observations after a journey from Brussels to Germany

By Jon on January 20, 2010

In the January edition of ‘Mobil’, the magazine of Deutsche Bahn there’s a picture of Guillaume Pépy (head of SNCF), Rüdiger Grübe (chair of the board of Deutsche Bahn) and Yoshio Ishida (president of UIC) beaming at Gare du Midi, Bruxelles, in front of the Climate Express, a special day long train organised in December [...]

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You would have thought SNCF would have learnt from Eurostar… sadly not

By Jon on December 22, 2009

Eurostar has not been running for 3 days and has been roundly criticised for not informing passengers what’s going on. In that climate you would have thought that other train operators would have been especially attentive to customer service in the event of delays. Oh no, not even close. Sarkozy even called in Guillaume Pepy, boss [...]

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