This was a fun and useful podcast, but I want to add one caveat to your claim that air travel is worse in Europe than in the US. The EU has a law that airlines must compensate passengers for cancelled flights and delays of three hours or more. My sense is that the airlines don’t schedule flights as tightly, because they have a financial …
This was a fun and useful podcast, but I want to add one caveat to your claim that air travel is worse in Europe than in the US. The EU has a law that airlines must compensate passengers for cancelled flights and delays of three hours or more. My sense is that the airlines don’t schedule flights as tightly, because they have a financial incentive to be on time. Obviously this is only an anecdote, but I’ve lived in Europe for almost a decade and (before Covid) used to take multiple trips per year, and I have only been on a couple of flights that were late (and then only half an hour or so). But even if your flight is messed up, at least you get some money out of it. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights/air/indexamp_en.htm
This was a fun and useful podcast, but I want to add one caveat to your claim that air travel is worse in Europe than in the US. The EU has a law that airlines must compensate passengers for cancelled flights and delays of three hours or more. My sense is that the airlines don’t schedule flights as tightly, because they have a financial incentive to be on time. Obviously this is only an anecdote, but I’ve lived in Europe for almost a decade and (before Covid) used to take multiple trips per year, and I have only been on a couple of flights that were late (and then only half an hour or so). But even if your flight is messed up, at least you get some money out of it. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights/air/indexamp_en.htm