Originally Posted by smith
I think London-Paris is one of the busiest routes in the world so has always surprised me there is no Stansted-Beauvais. Probably the distances involved from the city make even eurostar a quicker alternative.
You can get from St. Pancras to Gare du Nord in just over 2 hours. If two travellers started from the centre of London at the same time, one would be in Paris while the other was still waiting to board the aircraft at Stansted.
And you can't begin to compare the comfort of a 2-hour train journey with the nightmare that flying short-haul has become.