As I was saying

An article in The Economist February 7th-13th supports our feelings about the demise of air travel as the method of choice. Apparently in Spain, which has invested heavily in new high speed train routes, including the link between Sevilla and Madrid on which we will travel in a couple of weeks as we begin our journey to South America, domestic airlines have lost a fifth of their passengers and long-distance trains have gained almost a third. Iberia, the Spanish equivalent of BA, with which it has increasingly close ties, is planning to cut domestic flights by 7% this year and a report from the ESADE business school in Barcelona predicts that within two years trains will carry more long-distance travellers within Spain than airlines. So, not just anecdotal evidence then!