Re: Remember HS2? Boris approves HS3!
Originally Posted by
The Artful Todger
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Air travel becomes very expensive when all of the costs of city centre to city centre are added in.
Time is the kicker. The time to get to the airport for one. Then the time between airport door to aircraft door. At the destination airport time from aircraft door to airport door, then time from airport to city centre.
Now replace hours with pounds. Let's assume that the loaded labour rate for a mid level executive is around £250,000 per year.
That means that the cost to an employer of even a mid level executive is approx £160.00 per hour.
Now throw in the work that can be done on a train with what can be done on a plane when apart from anything else working on a short haul flight is like trying to poke a red hot needle up the backside of a rabid hedgehog.
Even with only a 25% (?) effectiveness at that's an added value.
It often surprises people when the real cost of things get exposed, and of course that doesn't consider the dust - to - rust environmental cost s let alone fuel costs per passenger plus freight mile.
You have not answered my question Todge, you have only
given reasons why air travel is not as cheap as it appears?
My question was, how HS2 will benefit the northern regions
of UK, and l also offered a couple of reasons why it would
not?
As an aside, l do not accept your premise that the hordes of
highly paid, highly skilled executives you envisage working their
whatsitsv off va internet whilst on the train to increase their
productivity is a realistic vision given the current attitude of
the the London bubble dwellers to anything north of
Cambridge!!
Your last paragraph also raises the main question in my post
about the relative costs per mile of air travel v rail in the
UK???
Regards Donkeyman!