Deutsche Bahn Cuts Monthly Ticket Prices 25% From 21 October
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From Wednesday 21 October, Deutsche Bahn cuts the price of long-distance monthly tickets for commuters by 25 percent. The reduction covers monthly tickets and pupils' monthly tickets bought without a subscription. Deutsche Bahn announced the change in early October.
The company gives two examples. On the Frankfurt (Main) to Mannheim route, a monthly ticket without a subscription costs 375.60 euros now and will cost 281.70 euros from 21 October, a saving of 93.90 euros. On the Augsburg to Munich route the difference is 79 euros. Deutsche Bahn says almost 10,000 commuters currently hold a monthly ticket or a season-ticket subscription, and that all of them will pay less in future.
At the same time the railway is ending its season-ticket subscriptions altogether. New subscriptions are no longer offered from 21 October. Subscriptions that exist on that date will be cancelled in June 2027, and until then they can be used at the price advantage of the annual subscription. If a subscription ends before 12 months are over, the unused remaining time is refunded proportionally and automatically. Customers do not have to do anything.
Weekly tickets, pupils' weekly tickets and multi-trip tickets stay available. A monthly ticket allows a second person to travel free on Saturdays. Customers now buy the monthly ticket only when they need it, so nothing is paid for a ticket that goes unused during a holiday. The price cut applies to the long-distance route season tickets (ICE and IC), and the railway says fares such as Sparpreis tickets from 6.99 euros and the Flexpreis stay unchanged.
Sources: Deutsche Bahn, n-tv.de (dpa)
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