FlixTrain German offering to increase by 40 per cent
Flixtrain is increasing its offer with 40 per cent more seats to be available to German travellers this year, compared to 2023.
German court rules against DB in rail ticketing lawsuit filed by Flix
In a significant legal development, the Hamburg Regional Court has handed down a judgement recognising the dominant position of Deutsche Bahn’s (DB) in-house online rail ticket vendors. The…
FlixTrain increases Germany offer in new 2024 timetable by 25%
For the summer of 2024, FlixTrain plans to further increase the number of trips between cities in Germany, and will serve new destinations. Thanks to a more frequent…
49-euro Deutschlandticket a thorn in the side of Flix
Most of Germany is quite happy with the Deutschlandticket, and rail operators see more passengers on their trains. For Flix, which runs trains and buses, this is a…
FlixTrain plan trains to the Netherlands from next year
FlixTrain’s bright green trains that are already running in Germany and Sweden may come to the Netherlands next year. Flix notified the Dutch Consumer and Market Authority (ACM)…
FlixTrain cancels Swedish trains due to damaged carrriages
FlixTrain has had to cancel trains between Göteborg and Stockholm this week due to the problem of damaged carriages. Swedish media report several wagon windows and the undercarriage…
EU to back new cross-border pilots by European Sleeper, SJ, Eurostar, among others
The European Commission will support 10 pilot project for new cross-border services and the improvement of existing ones, it announced on Tuesday. Among the proposals selected are those…
Analysis
Four French entrepreneurs want to operate trains differently
Launching your own trains in France is not easy, yet four entrepreneurs are trying to put private trains on the rails where the SNCF has abandoned services. They…
Analysis
France seems to welcome competition on the rails, yet new services keep getting postponed
Only one competitor to the state-owned railways SNCF currently runs trains on the French network. This is Italy’s Trenitalia, which has been running on the Paris-Lyon-Milan axis since…
FlixTrain offers new destinations in Germany and first train to Switzerland
FlixTrain announced an expansion of its network in Germany on Wednesday, which for the first time has a cross-border connection to Switzerland. It includes three new lines with…
Analysis
FlixTrain: a change of strategy?
Things are moving fast for the privately owned Munich-based firm FlixMobility, which has been running FlixTrains since 2017. The acquisition of the American bus icon Greyhound in 2021…
‘Integrated companies like DB pose more problems than solutions’
The new German government recently announced that the split of Deutsche Bahn into two different entities would not take place. There will be an attempt to make the…
New services for FlixTrain in Germany
With its new winter timetable, FlixTrain is adding 10 new stops to its network from 12 December and almost 20 more destinations will be added to the network…
‘Flight tax more important for shift to rail than lower track access charges’
“We have to reduce track access charges, and especially Germany has a problem with this”, said Oldag Caspar of Germanwatch during a panel discussion at the arrival of…
SNCF announces its new ‘Ouigo vitesse classique’ service
SNCF announced the expansion of the Ouigo brand, this time in the form of renovated classic trains, on the French domestic network.