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Old Apr 17, 2007 | 10:27 pm
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Originally Posted by sany2
I think the fares are reasonable. I regularly travel amtrak between NYC and DC/PHL.

Living in Detroit, I can fly to NYC, take a meeting, hop on the train to DC, take another meeting, then fly home from DC. I certainly wouldn't drive. Also, if I have several days of meetings in NYC, but have one in PHL mixed in, I can go to the meeting and come back to NYC the same day.
Right, and for a business traveller, that makes sense.

But imagine if the airlines only catered to business travellers.

Amtrak has essentially priced themselves out of the leisure market for the vast majority of potential travellers -- even with gas going for almost $3 gallon and fairly hefty Northeast tolls.
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