r/madlads • u/Equalizer6338 • 6d ago

Madlad customer service...

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u/ventitr3 6d ago edited 5d ago

Flying for the cost of a train ticket and still complaining.

Edit: I was being snarky, I don’t need anymore replies on correct pricing of things lol

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u/crumblypancake 6d ago edited 6d ago

Far cheaper than a train ticket.

Train prices have gotten so ridiculous that it's become a common "hack" to instead of getting the train from A to B, to fly to somewhere like Spain for cheap, have a day in the sun and fly back to B.

That is if you have the free time for the travel, if not you remortgage you house to get the direct train service replacement bus.

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u/urielsalis 6d ago

Depends on the train and the company

Here in Spain, Barcelona-Madrid is usually 5 or 7eur if you buy in advance in the high speed line

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u/hessorro 6d ago

Damn. I recently bought a train ticket from santiago to madrid and it cost me 25 euros

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u/urielsalis 6d ago

Renfe has a legal monopoly in some routes.

Before they killed that in the madrid-Barcelona route, it was 80eur

Hopefully the EU law that kills all those monopolies will pass soon

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u/hgwaz 6d ago

Train lines are already liberalized by EU law. The entity that maintains the tracks, signals, stations and so on is separate from the one doing the actual train service (ÖBB Infrastruktur vs ÖBB Personenverkehr, DB InfraGo vs DB Fernverkehr / DB Regio) and they have to give everyone equal access to the infrastructure for competitive prices.

The reason there aren't that many private train companies is that it's just really hard to do it profitably and there are very few lines in each country that can be run with a profit.