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Can Europe’s trains compete with low-cost airlines?

Despite huge investments and increasing competition, travelling by rail is still slower and more expensive than flying

It was less than a week into the job running one of Europe’s biggest airports that Ruud Sondag realised that inviting climate protesters to visit might have been a mistake.

“I saw a big advertisement in the paper from Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace saying they were coming to visit the airport,” says Sondag, the chief executive of Amsterdam’s Schiphol at the time.

“We basically said: ‘Come on over. Don’t make a mess, but you’re welcome. Express your thoughts’,” Sondag recalls. “And that worked pretty well until the moment that they chained themselves to the private jets.

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