24.05.2022 08:31
9-euro ticket: Deutsche Bahn is increasing trains and staff in Bavaria
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München – The demand for 9-euro tickets in Munich and Nuremberg is high Deutsche Bahn will increase its trains on regional and S-Bahn routes in Bavaria from June.
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With the monthly ticket, passengers can travel nationwide in local and regional public transport in June, July and August for 9 euros each. © Monika Skolimowska/dpa
On weekends and public holidays, “travel guides” should ensure that passengers board and disembark smoothly at heavily frequented stations, DB Regio announced on Monday. The maintenance crews in the workshops and the cleaning teams in the stations would be strengthened.
“All available vehicles are also used on the Munich S-Bahn: Long trains with a larger capacity and additional trains can be used at short notice if required.”
Passenger drivers are also to be used on the main S-Bahn route in Munich and on the routes from Starnberg and Ammersee to Munich.
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DB Regio expects a high volume of passengers on heavily used connections and around popular excursion destinations, including on the Werdenfelsbahn Munich – Kochel, Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on the Allgäu routes Munich – Lindau, Munich – Oberstdorf, Nuremberg – Augsburg – Oberstdorf, Nuremberg – Augsburg – Lindau, Ulm – Oberstdorf and on the express connections Franconia-Thuringia, Main-Spessart (Frankfurt – Würzburg – Bamberg) and Munich – Augsburg – Ulm and Munich – Nuremberg. The same applies to connections of the Gräfenbergbahn, Würzburg – Treuchtlingen and Würzburg – Nuremberg.
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MVG sells 15,500 9 euro tickets from Sunday to Monday noon
The 9-euro ticket can also be purchased from the individual transport associations, railways and bus companies. © Matthias Balk/dpa
The sale of the 9-euro tickets has got off to a good start at the Munich public transport company (MVG). From Sunday to Monday noon, 15,500 of these tickets, which are valid nationwide, were already sold as paper tickets at the ticket machines and customer centers, said MVG press spokesman Maximilian Kaltner.
Because the lead time for the tickets, which are only valid from June, is very large, MVG expected this size.
MVG has increased staff in the customer centers, including ticket examiners as temporary workers there. There was a maximum of ten minutes waiting time.
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In the MVG app, customers can only buy the 9-euro ticket from June 1st. If you already have a subscription, you automatically pay the reduced price and can use your ticket nationwide.
The Munich transport association MVV, which includes the municipal MVG, DB Regio and several train and bus companies, activated the online sale of 9-euro tickets on Monday at 10 a.m. and initially had “a small technical problem”.
Around 600 tickets were sold in the first few minutes, said spokeswoman Franziska Hartmann. In the meantime, the server capacities have been increased.
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9-euro ticket: “So far, sales have been smooth”
Deutsche Bahn is strengthening trains and staff in Bavaria. © Sven Hoppe/dpa
The greater Nuremberg transport association, which includes a good 130 transport companies, sold around 23,000 online tickets from Friday to Monday noon. For technical reasons, sales at the ticket machines are still taking place and will start in early June, said press spokeswoman Melinda Burmeister-Neuls. Sales have not yet started in the customer centers in Nuremberg either.
The Bavarian Regiobahn is also “quite satisfied with the first figures”, as marketing manager Sabine Floßmann said: “We are currently approaching the four-digit range.” The app was activated during the night, but the highest demand is at the machines.
It would be interesting for the individual transport associations, railways and bus companies to sell the 9-euro tickets, which are valid nationwide, through their own sales channels, because there is a small financial incentive for them to do so.
In the Augsburger Verkehrsverbund AVV, advance sales began on Monday on all channels, from the app to the machines to the bus driver. “So far, sales have gone smoothly, and we haven’t seen any queues in the customer center either,” AVV said.
Around 60 units were sold in the AVV customer center in the first three hours. “But the 9-euro tickets are not limited and are only valid on June 1st.”
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Titelfoto: Monika Skolimowska / dpa
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