"Bjørnar Bolsøy" wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in


There have been lots of short haul jet successes over the years,
so perhaps part of its limited success was in the mind of
the era, air-travel wasn't really a viable transport option
for average people. In particular in europe, where the train
has always had a strong position, contrary to the US.


However catching a train from Britain to the continent
was until very recently made atouch difficult by virtue of
it being an island.

Fact is as you must know millions of Europeans have being
making short haul flights to the Med for their hols for
the last 30 years. The airlines operated BAC-111's
for a while alongside Comet4's, Britannia's , Caravelles's
etc but almost all had switched to Boeing aircraft by the mid 80's.

Keith