Deutsche Bahn is of increasing passenger numbers over the long Whitsun week-end. “We also with a view of the Whitsun week-end, we make a slight step up,” said at the beginning of this week, Berthold Huber, passenger transport Board of management at Deutsche Bahn.
Accordingly, the trains were fully booked this coming weekend, currently 30 to 40 percent. Normally a value of more than 55 percent had at Pentecost.
the first stress test, there were already the last long weekend of Four days off were possible for those who had taken the Friday after ascension day as a long weekend free. Time enough to rise after weeks of stalemate in the Corona-crisis time again in the train and leave. More than 750 000 passengers did this then also with the Deutsche Bahn, as the group announced earlier this week.
Only half as many web customers as 2019
Compared with the previous year, only half as many customers. However, with a view to what has gone before in the Corona-crisis, this meant a significant increase for the company. Around 90 percent of the drive were burglarized guest numbers before.
it is Very likely that the number of passengers will rise on the day of Pentecost again. Finally, Hotels and restaurants have opened in this week in Germany also for guests from outside. Tourism is, therefore, possible again – despite still-rising infection crisis figures in the Corona.
passengers on the day of Pentecost to travel again funny
“We said, also with a view of the Whitsun week-end, we make a slight step-up” to the beginning of this week, Berthold Huber, passenger transport Board of management at Deutsche Bahn. Accordingly, the trains were fully booked this coming weekend, currently to 30 and 40 percent. Normally a value of more than 55 percent had at Pentecost.
“It’s uphill so slowly,” said Huber. “We are noticing that people are beginning to be a bit safer and more long-term book.” Anyone who wants to know how the consumers felt the need to only look at the Postings of the web.
to distribute a New concept for dealing with higher workloads
the workload as evenly as possible on all trains, has been installed on the train long before the crisis, a busy indicator in the own booking App. This is now adapted to the new conditions: if a train is fully booked for the half, you will see a high utilization rate, in the hope that other customers on a different journey to Dodge. The bookings continue to rise, it could be the ticket sales suspended, it said. Reservation is compulsory not to give it but still.
in Addition, the group also increased its offering in the long-distance transport. On routes between major cities such as Berlin and the Ruhr area and further South again double should be used instead of single trains. So the seat will double space.
Huber is confident that the passenger traffic with these measures, control well let. Every day he take a look at the booking numbers, he said, with a view to Pentecost. “If there would be somewhere to be a bigger problem, would be the known.”
Just a recommendation: No mask duty in the train
The German rail recommends that all travelers to wear mouth-nose-coverings. A duty but there are not. The air-conditioning in the trains resulted in a rapid and continuous exchange of air, said Huber.
For the verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband such a “soothing notes are not enough”, however. “A failure or Defect in an air conditioner in Corona, times, then not only annoying, but must lead to an immediate blocking of the wagons,” said the Association on dpa request. He also called for more staff on the trains to help with problems and to defuse potential conflicts. To put “only on social control, will not be sufficient and can make travelling by train stressful.”
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