Over the past couple of months, the travel industry has had another reminder of just how fragile global mobility still is.
Rising tensions in the Middle East are once again affecting air routes, pushing up costs and, perhaps most importantly, reintroducing a level of uncertainty that many thought was behind us. When this happens, a familiar narrative tends to resurface: if flying becomes more complicated, travellers will simply move to other modes of transport.
It sounds logical, doesn't it?
But reality is rarely that straightforward.
Less plane does not automatically mean more train.
