With the start of the summer timetable, Deutsche Bahn has expanded its long-distance service offering with more trains, new direct connections and additional journeys. Weekly seat availability has risen to over three million seats for the first time. That is 20 percent more than in the summer of 2019. More XXL ICE trains have been running since Sunday than ever before: the 32 extra-large ICE trains each accommodate around 1.000 passengers on the particularly popular connections.
“We can achieve this new seat record thanks to the continuous expansion of long-distance transport and the fleet. In this way we create sufficient space for the rapidly increasing demand. This summer, the desire to travel is greater than ever.”
Chemnitz (city in the west of the German federal state of Saxony) is reconnected to the long-distance network. Modern intercity trains run twice a day in each direction from the Saxon city to Dresden, Berlin (including BER Airport), Rostock and the Baltic Sea coast. Flensburg will have a direct connection to Prague via Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden. The through Intercity between Berlin and Westerland (Sylt) can once again run permanently. There is a new Eurocity connection between Lindau-Reutin and Zurich early in the morning.
In addition, Deutsche Bahn is expanding its schedule offer during the summer months on weekends with two additional connections between Warnemünde, Rostock and Berlin and a direct connection from Dresden via Berlin to Binz on Rügen and Stralsund (round trip). From June 18 to August 21, six instead of the previous three trains will run in each direction between Hamburg and Copenhagen, the statement said German railway company.
