Plane Vs Train : Guest Review of Amtrak Business Class.

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Airline Reporter.com : Plane Vs Train : Guest Review of Amtrak Business Class

 

By

David Parker Brown, on June 11th, 2012 at 8:05 am

 

About ready to head north on the Amtrak Cascades. Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren / NYCAviation.com.

 

 

Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, with NYCAviation.com, recently took an Amtrak train ride from Portland to Seattle and wrote a review to compare the experience to a flight. Here is his review in his own words:

"AMTRAK REVIEW

Cheers: On-time, spacious, crazy low price

Jeers: Equal to driving time; three times as long as a flight

Coming off the recent experience with a Superliner car on a Vancouver BC to Seattle trip, we had to admit expectations were high. To refresh, coach class seating on the trip involved a crazy amount of legroom, generous recline, and almost a full window of view for an exceptionally low price. We had wondered at first when boarding in Vancouver if we accidentally boarded the business class car by mistake and were pleasantly surprised to discover we had not. If coach class was that impressive, we figured that business class had to be damn near palatial.

 

The train station in Portland. Image by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren / NYCAviation.com.

 

 

So you can imagine our surprise when taking advantage of priority boarding to car one—exclusively business class—and discovering that the legroom we expected to be a sea of freedom ended up being about equal to the exit row on your average 737. "

 

 

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