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It really shouldn't be cheaper. Air travel is cheap because so little of it is taxed. We've become accustomed to cheap air travel and so prying that away will be difficult, but it needs to happen.
I just checked - If I need to be in Edinburgh by early afternoon on Monday, I could get the train for £75 or fly for £35. That is madness.
Scrabble-
I had this exact thing recently, I needed to get from Exeter to Manchester, £300 on the train, £60 on the plane...
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as genuinely shocked by how cheap the flight was. I often take the train from the westcountry to London, so have become numb to the £150 that costs each way...
But I'd like to get away from seeing it just as a pricing/markets issue - which effectively makes travel a luxury good (prices go up, poor can no longer afford it...) and in addition change people's attitudes to travel. You can enrich your lives without going to the other side of the world and it would be great to see that view encouraged.
Sam_w
Gustav
It's tough.
I'm flying to France instead of boat/tunnel+driving or train+driving because; 1) it's cheaper, 2) it's more convenient for my particular circumstances right now.
But in future I will consider it more.