Deutsche Bahn

More comfort and flexibility for passengers. This is what Deutsche Bahn (DB) wants to achieve with the launch of electronic panels displaying the occupancy rates of its carriages in real time. Information on how full the carriages are is now transmitted directly to passengers on the platforms, in the carriages and also via...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) is continuing to improve its ICE offer with its 2023 timetable. Of course, this applies to domestic German lines, but it can also be an advantage for French travellers who prefer the train. For example, the densification of the Cologne-Munich line, with two ICEs per hour. As for trains...

It was the great success of the summer in Germany and will probably be talked about for a long time to come. When the German federal government decided to reduce its citizens' energy bills for three months, one of the key measures was the introduction of a €9 monthly ticket valid on all regional trains...

From August 1, Germany's national rail carrier Deutsche Bahn (DB) will become Star Alliance's first intermodal partner. In doing so, DB and the aviation sector are sending out another strong signal in support of the environmentally friendly development of the travel industry. As part of the new cooperation, DB customers and airlines will be able to...

A chorus of mutual praise marked the celebration of 15 years of high-speed rail services between Deutsche Bahn (DB) and SNCF. Launched in 2007, this cooperation has enabled 25 million people to travel between France and Germany. The railway lines between France and Germany...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) enjoyed a more favourable year in 2021 thanks to the first wave of relaxation of health constraints during the spring and summer. As a result, the railway company recorded double-digit revenue growth, exceeding the level achieved in 2019. DB Group revenues rose by 18.4 1TP3Q...

Are you allowed to eat while travelling or not? This is not such a trivial question, following the government's announcement at the end of last week that it would be forbidden to eat food on board trains. Especially on long journeys. Before taking a plane or a train, will we have to hurry up and gobble down some food?

Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (commonly known as BER) has certainly welcomed this news. A partnership has just been signed between the airline Easyjet and Deutsche Bahn. The aim is to use the airport's underground station to take passengers travelling to BER to several German cities by train. It will...

Germany's federal railways, Deutsche Bahn, want to promote the use of digital tickets. This means suspending the sale of paper tickets on trains. Paper tickets will be phased out by 2022. Since the end of April, passengers using Deutsche Bahn trains have no longer been able to buy their...

Lufthansa and Deutsche Bahn will be stepping up their cooperation to offer more train+plane services. Lufthansa's ICE (high-speed train) network will now include five more cities. But also the introduction of a faster train, the "Sprinter", to Frankfurt airport. The new Sprinter trains will enter service in...

The stricter containment measures introduced in Germany at the end of December have now been extended until the end of January. The country has seen a sharp increase in cases of covid-19 over the last three weeks, and seems to have lost control over the spread of the virus. All non-essential shops are now closed, restaurants...

The price of the BahnCard 25, which gives access to a 25% discount on German rail routes, is being offered at 24.90 euros (2nd class) or 69.90 euros (1st class) instead of 54.60 euros and 109.90 euros. The discount applies to all major Deutsche Bahn -ICE lines...

Ecological awareness and the Covid-19 crisis have had at least one positive effect on Europe's railways: the return of night trains. A fine revenge for a mode of transport that seemed doomed 20 years ago. The SNCF in France, the FS in Italy...

Lufthansa's Airport Express service has been around for decades. As far back as the 1980s, Lufthansa innovated by running Deutsche Bundesbahn trains from Düsseldorf, Cologne and the former federal capital Bonn, as well as from Stuttgart, to the mainline station at Frankfurt airport. The trains were painted in Lufthansa colours...

Lufthansa is adapting to passenger demand for greater integration between rail and air, and more rail connections on the shortest domestic routes. From mid-December, the German airline, in cooperation with its partner Deutsche Bahn, will be increasing the number of its connections to the airport...

As in France, Deutsche Bahn is increasingly popular with the public, particularly with the development of the ICE network and improved connectivity. "We have recently integrated the routes of neighbouring networks with which we cooperate, such as SNCF, Thalys, OeBB and Trenitalia, into our booking platform. This has enabled us to...

This is the biggest project in the history of Deutsche Bahn, which has taken 25 years to complete. The inauguration of the Berlin-Munich high-speed line, scheduled for December, will put the finishing touches to the country's reunification, reconnecting East and West Germany after four decades of separation... The railway line, which passes...

As a cost-saving measure, Deutsche Bahn (DB) is reorganising its activities in France by closing its Paris representative office on 30 June, transferring its activities to Frankfurt. The office was set up twenty years ago, and generated sales of €50m a year through a major groups business, business travel and the...

The arrival of the m-ticket in France was made official on Thursday 6 February by Deutsche Bahn, which has already launched the service on its French website. Accessible right up to the departure time, the mobile ticket is operational on the Franco-German cross-border network, for journeys from France to all German stations, and for journeys within Germany.