Green-er Eurostar seat availability slashed due to bureaucratic brexit bungling

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Green-er Eurostar seat availability slashed due to bureaucratic brexit bungling

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Not so green with so many (B)rex-it related seats having to be left unsold due to passport / security checks & extended check in times required.

No ski train either.

Wonder who in uk government is meant to be resolving all these long known about log-jams?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... s-brussels
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Bearing in mind how much lower carbon travel the ski train is "was" I'm amazed this element has not been sorted sooner by uk & european passport control expansion in log-jam areas, especially for winter tourism, france italy etc, they'll be screwed come easter.
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Mr Gus wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:50 pm Bearing in mind how much lower carbon travel the ski train is "was" I'm amazed this element has not been sorted sooner by uk & european passport control expansion in log-jam areas, especially for winter tourism, france italy etc, they'll be screwed come easter.
They are already screwed: there's no snow! Also I read that they haven't got the water for "artificial" snow either - even if the Swiss have got abundant HEP.
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This is the 1in 7, howeverabove 1800-2000 metres should be ok & useful, ..for now, point with the rains, train more staff whilst a lull, seasonal aberrations or not, more people are understanding less flight is needed & possible, esp with new trans eurpean routes being opened.

More ev's & more potential for ski travel with a packed car, utilising eurostar.

unlike a couple of years ago where geneva airport ev car hire was a total unhireable pr bullshit fabrication by the big companies, ..who I even called & spoke to, they are coming into physical stock in small increments, so at least some travel flight guilt can countered, & this was half the problem of modern onward travel.
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Here is the biggest indicator of the current weather strop, town centre of chamonix, or ground zero of sensible resort height with various mountain lifts around it..

https://www.chamonix.net/francais/webca ... onix-ville

Brevant (a few hundred metrs aabove) & flegere are "do-able" but more snow beneficial, no biggie, in stark contrast to reportage where they don't mention altitude, resort or directional facing for context.

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