Agh 🤯
One step forward, two steps back, for EU rail booking!
I just tested a Frankfurt (Main) 🇩🇪 - Bourg-St-Maurice 🇫🇷 trip on Deutsche Bahn's Reiseauskunft, travelling tomorrow
This is the connection
One step forward, two steps back, for EU rail booking!
I just tested a Frankfurt (Main) 🇩🇪 - Bourg-St-Maurice 🇫🇷 trip on Deutsche Bahn's Reiseauskunft, travelling tomorrow
This is the connection
If I click "Preis ermitteln" it takes me to DB's international portal... that can now...
🥁
sell me the whole trip in one transaction!
But giving me 3 tickets, so no through passenger rights. Price: €148,65
🥁
sell me the whole trip in one transaction!
But giving me 3 tickets, so no through passenger rights. Price: €148,65
But hang on
Tickets *to* Switzerland are normally bookable on the regular Deutsche Bahn website
What does a Frankfurt (Main) 🇩🇪 via Olten 🇨🇭 to Geneve 🇨🇭 cost?
€80,80
Tickets *to* Switzerland are normally bookable on the regular Deutsche Bahn website
What does a Frankfurt (Main) 🇩🇪 via Olten 🇨🇭 to Geneve 🇨🇭 cost?
€80,80
And Geneve🇨🇭 via Chambéry 🇫🇷 to Bourg-St-Maurice 🇫🇷
That's €34,50
That's €34,50
So get this...
1 transaction, 3 tickets (DB International)
€148,65
2 transactions, 2 tickets (regular DB and SNCF)
€115,30
Saving: €33,35 🤯
1 transaction, 3 tickets (DB International)
€148,65
2 transactions, 2 tickets (regular DB and SNCF)
€115,30
Saving: €33,35 🤯
What *seems* to be happening here is that DB International sees the Olten-Geneve 🇨🇭 leg as separate, rather than the route the whole way to Geneve as a DB Sparpreis...
Which from the customer point of view is 🤬
Which from the customer point of view is 🤬
Anyway, one to keep an eye on @LenaDonat @seatsixtyone @FPerissinotto @kcorrick!
(and note: this was just a test. I am not actually going to Bourg-St-Maurice tomorrow, although I can but wish!)
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(and note: this was just a test. I am not actually going to Bourg-St-Maurice tomorrow, although I can but wish!)
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