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Indeed, a handful of lines shown there are freight-only (or simply disused), but I still believe that far more than 90% of the lines...

I think we should also keep in mind that the majority of Switzerland consists of uninhabitable mountains, so their 9 million people are...

It‘s not really useful to compare all of North America with all of Europe (let alone: its most densely populated areas), but when you...

It took 9.5 months from funding announcement for VIA’s new corridor fleet to the contract signed with Siemens, but I agree that this...

And let‘s keep in mind that they are only expecting deliveries to start in the early 2030s, so 2027/28 seems indeed unrealistic at this...

Correct, but that‘s more applicable for discontinuing a service rather than cancelling an investment which has already been announced...

The value of points is measured in how much ticket fare a single point covers. Comparisons like this are meaningless if we don‘t know...

As you pointed out yourself recently, VIA‘s long-distance operations scatter well-paid jobs across almost the entire country. I...

No change was announced to the RFP winner annoucemment timeline. It was most recently publicly stated by the VIA HFR CEO at the TRBOT...

Back in 2018, when Budget 2018 announced at around the same time the funding for the Corridor fleet, the contract was indeed signed in...

VIA's long-distance fleet replacement funded in Federal Budget 2024! Page 256...

It's all reserve- and treaty-specific. Some don't get anything. Some get $5 every 2 years, as per certain treaties. There are some large...

Alitalia could not compete in an open skies environment - the beginning of the end was when Aer Lingus broke the papal monopoly in 1979 :D

Holy moly, Alitalia had already accummulated 30 continuous years of losses before the Direttissima opened (in 1977) as arguably the...

Alitalia spent decades on the brink - what killed it was EU State Aid restrictions. There is a decent sized article on the financial...