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Will the 90/180 Schengen rule apply to us?
No. It does not apply to you because you are a Croatian citizen. As long as you are together, it does not apply to your husband because when he is with you he is a "person enjoying the right of free movement under Union law" for the purposes of the Schengen Borders Code. The definition is found at Article 2(5):
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When traveling as a Croatian citizen, the 90/180 rule does not apply
to avoid confusion, you should not travel with a US-Passport within the European Union
You husbands temporary residency permit is not a Article 10 residence permit, since you are a Croatian citizen (and not another EU-Citizen).
For a US-Citizen the 90/180 day rule applies while outside ...
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First time poster, just one point to add in addition to the other answers, the change between compartments and corridor style rolling stock in the UK was accelerated by the murder of Deborah Linsley, and concerns surrounding the vulnerability of isolated passengers, particularly in stock with compartment access only from the platform.
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A combination of passenger demand and cost efficiency.
As explained in DavGin's answer already, you can fit more seats and thus more people into a car with an open seat arrangement.
However, that would not have been possible if passengers would not actually prefer that seating. I've travelled a lot by train in Germany where this transition is still ongoing....
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In the past most railways in Europe ran carriages that were built to a common design. These standard UIC designs are still quite common in Eastern Europe, but are disappearing everywhere else.
Such a standard UIC compartment car has usually only 66 seats in 2nd class, whereas a open coach has 88 seats. For the operating railways that is big difference, ...
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I think this has to do with:
Airplane-style individual seats instead of benches. It is now possible to manufacture a separate comfortable seat for every passenger even in the cheapest class, and compartment can only practically fit benches.
Movement towards flexible layouts. Instead of having a car of identical 9 compartments, in modern train car you would ...
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Adding a passenger would mean you're changing your booking. It's likely that as a low-fare airline, Wizz does not permit bookings to be changed or added-to, or doesn't permit new bookings for someone (the person you want to add) who isn't a member of the Wizz Discount Club.
In other words, there may be no link because it can't be done, or can't be done ...
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In the interests of completeness, it's worth mentioning that there are signs when entering the UK which warn that processing Italian ID cards is slower than passports or other EU ID cards. They don't have any modern electronic reader or digital signature technology, so the border official probably has to consult an online database to check that it's not a ...
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