Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has given a strong warning to airline investors: High-speed rail will soon dominate key Indian routes.Speaking at the CII Business Summit, Vaishnaw said routes like Mumbai-Pune, Hyderabad-Bengaluru, Bengaluru-Chennai, and Chennai-Hyderabad will be “99% dominated by railways” once bullet trains are operational.He highlighted dramatic time reductions: Mumbai-Pune in just 48 minutes, Bengaluru-Chennai in 78 minutes, and Pune-Hyderabad in under 2 hours.Citing examples from Japan, China, and South Korea, where high-speed rail has overtaken air travel on dense corridors, Vaishnaw argued that bullet trains will offer faster, more efficient, and convenient connectivity.

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