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[quote user="CMStPnP"] You will find the same true of Business Travelers in Europe in some cases.[/quote] It is difficult to compare Amtrak's LD trains to the European situation. In many cases international business travel within Europe is still by plain. Only where real high-speed service is provided like Cologne - Brusselles - Paris, Amsterdam NL - Paris, Stuttgart - Paris, to name a few, rail is competetive. Of German domestic relations only few favor air travel. Here is a map with the international airports that are the only ones providing regular domestic service: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Vergleich_Flughafen_Deutschland.png">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Vergleich_Flughafen_Deutschland.png</a> The distance between Hamburg and Munich is about 380 miles as the crow fies. Here is a map with cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Gro%C3%9Fst%C3%A4dte_historisch.png">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Gro%C3%9Fst%C3%A4dte_historisch.png</a> And here Germany's passenger rail network: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Bahn-Streckenkarte_Deutschland-06-2010.png">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Bahn-Streckenkarte_Deutschland-06-2010.png</a> Red: ICE-trains; Blue: IC/EC trains (locomotive pulled trains, 125 mph); Grey: other passenger trains Compared to the NEC (457 miles) the relation Hamburg to Munich (about 450 miles by train) is a corridor train, not a LD train. So we have more or less corridor service in Germany. [quote user="CMStPnP"]I don't know how expense reimbursement works in Europe but it is a big obstacle in the United States for using Amtrak beyond corridor services. [/quote] It is as difficult here in Europe. You need to take the cheapest mode of transportation with some limitations. Depending on salary some are entitled to train 1. class or business class on air travel. As short term reservations are necessary the cheapest fares seldom apply. Sometimes you are provided with a rental car. Getting to suburbs is mostly not a problem. Sometimes there is public transport or you take a taxi which is paid by the company. Regards, Volker
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