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Jul06

What's an Airport Express?

| 06/07/09 | Categories: Airport Expresses, Customer | by: A Sharp

Someone once said that a sneeze was difficult to define - you knew when it happened, but defining it was difficult!

So it seems sometimes with airport expresses.

There are, I reckon, 16 of these around the world. Why these 16? Well, they all meet criteria I have informally defined to myself and which seem to be generally accepted. They do exclude some trains which are sometimes described as airport expresses: they do admit one which calls itself an airport express but some think isn't.

So - it's a high quality train service between a city and an airport, primarily serving the needs of the airport (so if it stops between city and airport, it does so for airport purposes - primarily for air passengers). It can run beyond the city but again, primarily for airport purposes (and the classic example is Flytoget in Oslo, running to Asker and shortly to Drammen, in the western suburbs of Oslo, but only carrying passengers to and from Gardermoen airport). An airport express is a business class experience, fast, reliable and comfortable, designed for the air passenger. It sometimes charges a premium fare, but always gives value for money.

Is that adequate? What have I missed out?

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What's an Airport Express?

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