Thalys presents new design in Amsterdam
source: Thalys
Thalys presented its newly designed train in Amsterdam and various other stations in the Netherlands and Belgium on Tuesday. The train offers 28 extra seats, 15 percent more luggage space, room for bikes and a new bar area. RailTech travelled in the renewed train to Brussels and talked to Thalys CEO Bertrand Gosselin and NS International director Heike Luiten.
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As the trains still has the same number of coaches the 28 extra seats just mean: less comfort. Ryan Air on rails……
Only two bikes, and you have to take them apart? They don’t really want any business from cyclists, then!
Disgusting! Brutally uncomfortable seats that do not recline! Uncomfortable proximity to the next seat. Much less legroom. More torterous than Ryanair. Ticket prices increasing And you try to present this shemeless rip off bull s%!t as somethi grat. Yeeey 28 extra seats and sustainability mixed in! Shemeless!
Disgusting! Brutally uncomfortable seats. That do not recline. Painfully little leg space. Ticket prices increasing. And you try to present this shameless bullshit as something great! 28 more seats…yaaaay! Lets have back pain after 5 minutes on seats worse than Ryanair! Lets mix in sustainability so the bullshit doesnt smell!