Können Sie mir erklären, warum der Preis für Regionalzüge höher ist als für IC? Außerdem ist die Fahrtdauer gleich! Was ist das?
(In meinem Fall wird der 25-Karten-Rabatt angewendet)
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Von ConsaiderCordo
Können Sie mir erklären, warum der Preis für Regionalzüge höher ist als für IC? Außerdem ist die Fahrtdauer gleich! Was ist das?
(In meinem Fall wird der 25-Karten-Rabatt angewendet)
https://i.redd.it/v6lm6lbu0s4d1.jpeg
Von ConsaiderCordo
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It’s the same train, take the cheapest ticket. It’s an IC until Elsterwerda and than RE.
Long distance (ICE/IC/EC) trains have different tiers of pricing: super saver, saver and flex tickets. Super saver tickets do not allow you to a another connection our route to your destination on the same day, flex tickets do. There’s also only a limited number of super saver tickets for a given connection: the price you’re seeing is just the cheapest tier available. The pricing also often works a bit like with flights: more (expected) demand for a given route on a given day = higher price.
All of this flies out of the window with regional trains. No dynamic pricing, no tiers, no limited availability, no nothing. Just a fixed price that’s the same every day the train runs.
Supply and demand. For some reason, there’s fewer seats left on the RE, so the price went up. Perhaps the RE has additional stops in its journey that people nees to go to/from. Or perhaps people making use of pricing options like the deustche ticket that only apply to RE have exhausted most seats there.
As to why the trips take the same time: some portions of railway are speed limited due to old infrastructure, so the ICE can’t reach its usual speed.
Different pricing schemes, I assume.
The IC price likely contains SparPreis tickets as well, which do not exist for strictly regional connections (if you click on them and check the available options, you can actually see that).
Higher demand = higher price