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Deutsche Bahn joins Star Alliance

· Travel

DB joins Star Alliance. Wonderful news.

Just like Air France-KLM is already offering Thalys tickets for some of its flights from Brussels: instead of departing from BRU airport to AMS or CDG; just take a train from Brussels South.

It looks like Lufthansa, and soon all of Star Alliance, will offer more comprehensive (long-haul) tickets including a train ride to or from your final destination.

Can only applaud this: planes are here to stay; but I’d 100% prefer to take the train (at least a high-speed one like Thalys, Eurostar or the Shinkansen) over a small CRJ9, A220 or other sardine cans for my layover flight (BRU doesn’t have a lot of decent direct connections to Asia). These inter-city flights (short distance, frequent take-off and landing) heavily contributing to noise and environmental pollution.

Eurostar.com sitemap links to spam site...

· Errors, www

The Eurostar.com (cached copy) sitemap links to an odd directory: eurostar.com/bestkeptsecret (which was part of a viral campaign in 2006, Google tells me), which in turn redirects to a spam site… :(

Screen Shot 2012-12-29 at 23.11.32

 

Visiting that links redirect to a spammy website about real estate… Please clean up your shit -.-)

HTTP headers when getting eurostar.com/bestkeptsecret:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Content-Length: 245
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:14:39 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: https://web.archive.org/web/20190118192808/http://www.europesbestkeptsecret.com/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.europesbestkeptsecret.com/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>

Eurostar cheatness

· Misc

Did a comparison with a browser set to UK and one to Belgium on eurostar.com.

If you live in Belgium, you get free NMBS tickets (from and to Brussels South).

However, when you choose UK, you get an option to either choose Brussels South or "Any Belgian Station":

If we compare the prices for 2nd of June (Friday) we see a £6 difference between Brussels and "Any Belgian City".