the reason the lack of demand, the state shall notify the group. Customers could continue to use a similar offer.
The Deutsche Bahn from creates after 23 years, your weekend offer for nationwide travel in local trains. The “Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket” (SWT) will set in the coming summer, the company said. The state-owned company cited lack of demand as well as a “simplification of the tariff structure” as the reasons. Customers could use day-to-day, the “Quer-durchs-Land-Ticket” (QDL) for nationwide trips with local trains, said a railway spokesman in Berlin on Tuesday.
in contrast to SWT is that travelers can take advantage of the QDL not for trips with buses, underground and S – Bahn trains, in transport associations. The railway spokesman stressed, however, that the SWT was only in the last 19 of 61 Ally valid. “In addition, price adjustments would be necessary to be able to have the SWT continue to offer”, said the spokesman.
The SWT was introduced in February 1995, at the time cost 15 D-Mark and applied for up to five people. Most recently, a Ticket cost for a traveler 44 euros and was valid for one day. The QDL costs 44 euros for a traveler, and 76 euros for five passengers.
