Originally Posted by
Ldnn1
I think you're forgetting that (unlike Greek islands) Cornwall is still pretty well connected to London by both car and train. Yes they are long journeys, but so is flying and then hiring a car down at Newquay. Clearly there will be demand for flights, but it's not like the place is completely cut off from the rest of the country without them.
Personally, I'm heading down there in a couple of weeks by car, as I would likely be doing even if flights were an option.
Mmm yes. Can't wait for queues down the A30 when someone decides to flip their caravan every other day as soon as visitor numbers rise slightly. Queues all the way up to the M5 not uncommon either as many will know. Our road infrastructure isn't quite what it's made out to be.
With a direct train taking between 4h 45m and 5h 15m from Truro at least, edging on up to 6 hours for you poor lot in Penzance, it's not an amazing line on the best of days. You can never be in London before around 10:30am after, taking the 5am train, which is no longer direct these days due to Covid, you'd have to wait for the 6am... I could probably live in London and fly to Greece quicker... That's the joke. Also I implore you to sit on one of those GWR IET's for 6 hours in standard class, at night with those beaming LED ceiling lights. Ask me where I'd wanna be? 35-40 mins on a turboprops with an hour in the airport beforehand. I'm sold.
Cornwall is more than a leisure destination. The PSO runs just as much, if not more for Cornish residents benefit than those incoming to the county, although they do benefit from this too. No we're not cut off physically. But actually the cost of a train, maybe even a hotel cause I can't be somewhere on the same day is prohibitive.
Also maybe your experience is skewed by car hire at Newquay, so can't comment. But to be out the terminal and into my own car, feet from the terminal, or my partner's, and be home so much quicker is a life saver after a long day.