Originally Posted by
Harry Wayfarers
But aren't there direct flights between London and Glasgow?
Quite so. And a motorway all the way, too, come to that.
If someone wants to go to Sydney or Melbourne where most travellers to Australia actually want to go, they won't go through 17 hours of hell to get to the a**e end of nowhere, to take another short flight, when they could have the same number of flights and probably a shorter duration overall, and have a more pleasurable flight experience.
If you want to go to Glasgow from London, you don't go via scooter to Edinburgh on A Roads and then catch the train.
A dubious generalisation based on dodgy maths and accompanied by an invalid analogy.