Originally Posted by
ag51
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An article in the FT yesterday said that part of the reason for the new trains was to start a London - Amsterdam service, with a journey time of less than 4 hours. Would be interesting to hear how many current BA flyers from LON-AMS would be tempted by a 4 hour rail journey instead, especially if you had wi-fi access for most of the journey.
It'd depend how well the wifi works. On East Coast wifi can get totally unusable on busy trains particularly when NXEC made it free for all when they took over the franchise. Now East Coast have promised
improvements but have made it chargeable again for standard class. I've not tried it since the change a few days ago but I wonder if they've not really improved anything but by making it cost in standard class they're hoping to cut down the number of users so that it once again becomes usable.