Europe's December timetable change has created direct overnight links between city pairs that had no daytime connection at all, including Munich to Warsaw and Aachen to Halle, according to The Guardian.
Europe's December timetable changes have reopened direct overnight links between Warsaw and Munich, Paris and Berlin, and Salzburg and Kraków, according to The Guardian. The infrastructure meant to underpin that revival is running years late and billions over budget.
Europe's overnight rail network keeps adding city pairs, with new direct sleepers and revived cross-border links appearing in the December timetables, while the base tunnels meant to carry more of that traffic are years behind schedule.
Europe's rail map is being redrawn by a patchy mix of new sleeper services and record-breaking tunnels, with the EU already missing its 2030 deadline for 10,850 miles of core corridors.
Europe's rail operators brought back direct overnight links between cities as far apart as Munich and Warsaw and Aachen and Halle in December 2023. The base tunnels meant to speed up those same corridors are running an average of 82% over budget and 17 years late, the European Court of Auditors found.
For the first time since UTK began its monthly counts, more than 40 million people travelled by rail in Poland in July. But 92 accidents at level crossings pushed the President of UTK to call an emergency meeting of his safety team.
Domestic flight bookings in China rose 60 percent year on year on the first day of the extended holiday. Bookings for routes longer than 2,000 km rose 76 percent.
IATA expects airlines to carry 5.085 billion passengers in 2026 and take in USD 1.165 trillion, with net profit down by nearly half on 2025.
The Chinese CR450 trainset, billed as the world's fastest high-speed train, has made its debut at the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin.
IATA is betting on AI to build flight offers, China has issued a plan for managing aviation data, and the railways are changing the rules for booking tickets.
IATA puts airline industry costs at 1.117 trillion USD in 2026, with 350 billion USD of that going to fuel. Engine servicing is counted separately.
IATA says verifying digital visas at check-in costs carriers an average of USD 9,000 for every passenger turned away at the border.
One German local court took in 19,146 lawsuits in 2025. 92 percent of them were about air passenger rights.
The fast security check at German airports is usually free, but when booking opens varies by a factor of two between airports.
The rail business posted its first surplus in seven years in the same half-year that brought the second-highest rate of long-distance cancellations on record.
The German consumer federation vzbv found that the cheapest Deutsche Bahn fare was sometimes up to 157 percent above the advertised price.