Momondo Goes Trainspotting

   

The future belongs to ……… trains. They are comfortable, greener and offer more picturesque views than planes, they take you directly to city centers and not the least - they are ridiciously fast too. The popularity of today’s high speed intercity trains grows by the minute as an increasing number of travellers turn their backs on low-cost flight and discover the pleasures of overland travel. At Momondo we are fully aware of all the advantages of travelling on the rails and we want to further stimulate the ‘great’ revival of trains.

First we took you to the air with our airfare-search engine, later we took you on wheels and followed you to bed with our hotel search. Now we escort you to the train. Later we will follow you from door-to-door.

We believe that high-speed trains represent a viable alternative to flights. Therefore we have extended our flight search to include more than 4,000 train routes between major destinations in Europe, Australia and the US. The price comparison pops up as you do a flight search on specific routes and you’ll probably realize that the train is often cheaper and faster than the plane. So it is likely that your next arrival in Paris or Rome will be on a platform in Gare du Nord or the Termini Station both in the middle of the city centers. Oh yeah, and we forgot to mention that you don’t have to turn op hours before departure when you take the train.

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@ Adam

Since we wanted to offer an environmental friendly alternative to airplanes, we felt it was a good idea to show trains side by side with the results from an airfare search.

We have therefore included the train search in the flight search. This is a more effective approach than making it a stand alone search option.

If a search is conducted with a route which applies to some of our train suppliers, the train suppliers will automatically be searched along with all the airfare suppliers.  

You can recognize the trains in the results by their green borders around them.

Many of our users aren't aware of the possibility of using a train instead of an airplane. And by showing the train results side by side with planes we also enhance the knowledge of the train alternative.

Currently we only search for trains on European routes but in the near future we expect to include trains in the US, Australia and Japan.

If you have other questions or comments, don't hesitate.

ProUser ,Friday, January 23, 2009 10:33 AM

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