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[UK] No room for passengers' baggage

  • 12-10-2003 11:34am
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    Virgin Voyager trains don't have enough room for luggage

    Sunday Supplement Infrastructure, we spell it inferiorstructure

    By Mario Rodrigues: Sunday 12 October 2003, 11:34
    TO MAKE more room on Richard Branson's cramped new Voyager trains, Virgin Trains plans to send passengers' luggage by road and charge the fare paying passenger for the privilege. Can you believe it? [Yes, Ed.]

    The train company said the luggage delivery service would be optional. But if it introduces baggage limits, those who exceed it will have to pay.

    Not surprisingly, passenger groups call this proposal bizarre.

    The Jellygraph, which published the story, reported

    Stewart Francis, the chairman of the rail passengers' council, said Virgin's cramped new Voyager trains were to blame. "This is unbelievable," he said. "We warned Virgin about luggage space when they were designing the Voyager and they simply ignored us. If they had listened there would be no need to spend extra money on road transport and pass the cost on to passengers."

    This is like Boeing or Airbus designing a civil airliner that doesn't have enough room for luggage. It's incompetence of the highest order. [Surely Britain at its best? Ed.]

    You can read the rest of the sorry tale here. µ

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12051

    Floater


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