The Part of Your Europe Trip Everyone Forgets to Plan

Imagine planning your first Europe trip. You pick the cities you want to visit, book the flights, choose hotels and think you’re sorted. But anyone who has actually travelled through Europe knows this is only half the story. The hard part isn’t choosing Paris, Lucerne, and Geneva. It’s everything in between:

• Paris → Lucerne
• Interlaken → Geneva
• Airport → Airbnb
• Hotel → dinner reservation across town 

Nobody wants to be standing outside their hotel on day one, ready for the first activity, and realize they have no idea how to actually get there. 

These intercity transitions form the backbone of every Europe itinerary, yet almost all AI travel planners treat them as an afterthought.

A study by the European Travel Commission shows that 92% of Europe-bound travellers visit multiple cities, often crossing borders and relying heavily on trains, buses, domestic flights, and regional transport. Despite this, current travel agents and planners continue to generate isolated city itineraries that ignore transit entirely, leaving travellers to manually piece together the most crucial part of their trip.

Airial is built to fix that. It doesn’t just suggest cities and activities; it maps how you’ll actually move between them, so your Europe trip works as a single!

Introducing Airial’s Google Transit Integration

Planning how you’ll actually move is now a lot easier.

Airial now integrates directly with Google Transit, making it significantly simpler for users to track and understand all available local and intercity transportation options. 

After you create a trip with Airial, simply click the small train icon displayed between two Destination Cards. This opens a panel showing all transit options between those cities. And it doesn’t stop there. For navigating within a city, you can open the full itinerary, view/click the default transit option, and switch to your preferred choice with a single click. This means Airial can now pick — with precision — every connection needed for a seamless transit.

Instead of vague “travel time” gaps between activities, you get specific, bookable-style routes: 

• High-speed and regional trains
• Local buses, metros, and trams
• Ferries and driving routes

Every choice is embedded directly into your itinerary, so your Europe plan isn’t just a list of things to do—it’s grounded in real-time needs.

Plan Your Europe Rail Trip Around Real Trains

Now you can plan Europe the way it’s meant to be seen: by rail.

Ask Airial for something like:

“A two-week rail trip visiting scenic small towns in the French and Swiss Alps with a couple of days each in Paris and Zurich.”

From there, it builds the whole rail-first route for you, not just a list of cities. You’ll see

• Which trains connect each leg of the trip
• Recommended departure times
• How long transfers actually take
• When you’ll arrive in each city
• What you can realistically fit in after you step off the train
• How your day should shift if a connection changes

Airial even understands the “invisible” timings — the five-minute walk between hotels and bus stands, the 12-minute buffer needed at a busy station etc. These micro-details are what usually complicate Europe trip planning, and Airial handles them automatically.

This isn’t just itinerary generation — it’s true Europe transit optimization.

Change One Train, The Whole Day Adjusts

Airial’s real power appears the moment you tweak a connection.

Decide to take a later train? Airial automatically stretches your morning: checkout moves, breakfast runs longer, sightseeing shifts so you’re not sprinting through the city. Swap a bus for a car? Drive times, arrival times, and any stops along the way all update in one shot. Regular travel agents/planners can only list trains or generate generic schedules, but they can’t integrate those transit choices into a live itinerary that responds to your decisions. 

With Airial, you can say something like, “Move my morning train to the evening,” and the whole day rebalances. Your plans fill in or open up based on your style—tighter and efficient if that’s your thing, or slower and more relaxed if that’s the point of the trip.

The Future of Multi-City Trips Is Here

Planning a multi-city trip involves more than booking long international flights. It requires careful coordination of short domestic transitions — flights, trains, buses, cars, and more — across different countries, time zones, and rules.

So, if you’ve already picked your cities and booked the big stuff, let Airial take over the piece everyone forgets. Enjoy the adventure while Airial manages the intricacies of movement and timing.

Travel like a pro, with Airial.