L'Berlin Brandenburg International airport (commonly known as BER) has certainly welcomed this news. Indeed, a partnership has just been signed between the airline Easyjet and the Deutsche Bahn. The aim is to use the airport's underground station to take passengers from BER to several German cities by train.
Reservations can be made using the Worldwide by Easyjet a flight and a rail journey. It's as easy as a few clicks. To begin with, 16 major cities are included in the offer including Dresden, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Hamburg and Hanover,...
L'Berlin Brandenburg International airport (commonly known as BER) has certainly welcomed this news. Indeed, a partnership has just been signed between the airline Easyjet and the Deutsche Bahn. The aim is to use the airport's underground station to take passengers from BER to several German cities by train.
Reservations can be made using the Worldwide by Easyjet a flight and a rail journey. It's as easy as a few clicks. To begin with, 16 major cities are included in the offer including Dresden, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Hamburg and Hanover, for example. However, only the direct connections are likely to be the easiest to use. Like those to Dresden, or the German Baltic coast (Rostock).
For other destinations, a change will be necessary at Berlin Hauptbahnhofthe capital's main railway station. Or to Berlin Südkreuz, the station to the south of the capital.
" We would like to see more direct trains from our station, as this supports a more environmentally-friendly approach to mobility. But the decision is in the hands of Deutsche Bahn." explained a BER airport spokesperson.
Eventually, more towns will be linked by direct trains to BER
BER thus becomes the first German airport to be part of a joint venture between Easyjet and Deutsche Bahn. The new booking option is aimed primarily at attracting people living in eastern Germany. That's five million potential passengers...
According to Stephan Erler, German CEO of EasyjetThe new partnership with Deutsche Bahn, in addition to simplified booking via a single platform, offers another advantage: the ability to guarantee rerouting on both carriers in the event of delays.
However, Easyjet expects this new offer to have a quantitative effect on its traffic from the autumn onwards. The airline hopes to consolidate its Berlin's leading air carrier. It generates 30% of the capital's traffic and already links Berlin to 70 destinations, mainly in Europe.
