Flixtrain is on the move. The private German railway company plans to launch new routes across Europe and order 65 new trains for €2.4 billion. We travel from Hamburg to Cologne to see what its service is like.
Flixtrain is on the move. The private German railway company plans to launch new routes across Europe and order 65 new trains for €2.4 billion. We travel from Hamburg to Cologne to see what its service is like.
Ugh, this pisses me off. This Semi-Open market means you have the DB Fernverkehr which is not subsidized or anything, but it also has to service routes that are not profitable, so it needs to cross-subsidize, meaning the profitable routes are more expensive than they would be in an open market. So, ideally, you would want to close off the market, but no, we want competition everywhere. So we have companies like FlixTrain who then run the profitable routes, and leave the unprofitable routes to DB Fernverkehr, and then people wonder why their prices go up…
Hard to blame FlixTrain for taking advantage of the situation, though.
Exactly!