https://regiojet.pl/wazna-informacja

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Jančura ty chuju xD
@rail wait. they staffed a train with one attendant per car. why? that seems like such a waste of money on staff cost
@quinn their staff is also handling food deliveries to your seat regardless of class of travel and their snacks and drinks are very cheap so a lot of people do that

board staff on these trains is actually really busy most of the time, it's not waste
@[email protected] @quinn and for example the night line from ???-Pardubice-KrakΓ³w you'd get a free breakfast from the staff and the attendants would keep track of who to wake up before each stop
@natty @quinn ye quality of service is generally really good and one of the reasons for that is that they have *enough* staff rather than too few
@[email protected] @quinn yeah it's definitely really nice but also very likely to get cost cut ​​
@quinn @rail i mean, when pretty much every train is running with 4 cars, that doesn't sound so bad
@ptrc @rail okay but the press release mentions seven cars and seven crew members? which seems more than the required crew for long ICE 4
@quinn @ptrc they *wanted to* run trains with 6-8 cars the same way they do in Czechia but well, didn't manage to before pulling out of the PL market

one of the requirements for longer trains was getting a technical depot near Warszawa-Praga from PKP Cargo that they actually won in a tender last year

but due to alleged pressure from PKP IC, the purchase is still not finalized so they can't use that depot

all coaches and locomotives they used were assigned to Praha-Smichov depot and had to go back to Czechia for maintenance every few weeks which heavily limits logistics
@rail @quinn @ptrc For what it's worth, one independant railway journalist who wrote a couple pretty good books about the political history of Poland's railways alleged that it was not so much PKP IC that was responsible for RegioJet's difficulties, as members of PSL, the most conservative of the parties making up the ruling coalition, spread around PKP Group companies and voivodeship railways, who were particularly hostile towards the idea of *foreign* competition.
I wonder what the May issue of Z Biegiem Szyn is going to say XD
@HaTetsu @rail @quinn to be fair, PKPIC also contributed, mostly taking up UTK's attention with bullshit like "heeey we don't like that you allowed them to run this" only to go "actually nevermind" 3 months later
@rail @ptrc @quinn I wouldn't say it was pressure from PKP IC because also local plans only allowed for it to be another residential block or whatever