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I take most offense at the "have found ways to extract more money from their passengers". For me, a passenger, that would make them pretty awful. And of course it says blatently obvious what that CNBC video is really about. Hint: It's not about having a better airport.
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I knew that comment would be here 🤣
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@guyro3373 That strategy actually goes better/cheaper with more major stations and longer routes. It's a normal efficiency of scale. To be (example numbers) 95% sure one train per hour has a replacement, you need 1 spare. For 10 trains it's 3. For 100 trains it's 15 spares. And with longer routes you have more places where you can take them or the personal in a reasonable amount of time. Also, while rolling stock is expensive, you can use old wagons for this type of reserve. Like the "football fan trains" that use stuff from the 70s because the "fans" always break things, or at least shower beer on everything. That old stock might not be OK to run in normal service (reliability, comfort...) but as a reserve train it still works well. In a town here they did that with streetcars btw. In case of especially high demand (like a festival), they ran extra service with GDR-age Tatra sets. Maybe even the originals from 1969. Those cars were not in official use since a decade, but still sometimes put on until last year I think (when new stock arrived)?
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