With the €9 ticket you can travel anywhere in Germany using local transport in June, July and August. But the new offer does not apply to all trains with regional tariffs, which was not really communicated by Deutsche Bahn - or communicated in such a complicated way that no one really understood it.

Discussions with DB on Twitter

Frank Bergmann, the press officer for the Bundestag, noticed something in the train information that was only mentioned in the details of the route: the €9 ticket was not valid for the journey he had chosen, even though it was a regional express.

“Why are there RE trains where the 9 euro ticket is not valid?” he rightly asks the DB (and, to be honest, I did too when I saw this). The DB's succinct answer:

“The 9 euro ticket is not valid on trains operated by DB Fernverkehr AG (e.g. IC, EC, ICE), even if other local transport tickets are valid on long-distance trains.”

Source: Twitter

OK. It is well known that the ticket is not valid on IC, EC and ICE, but how should a mere mortal know which regional trains are operated by DB Long-Distance? On the outside they look the same, and if the timetable says “RE”, I assume that it is a local train and I can use the ticket.

So the rule is: It doesn't matter whether the train is a local train, but rather who operates it: the DB Regio (then the €9 ticket is valid) or the DB Fernverkehr AG (then the €9 ticket is not valid). Logical, right? And everyone probably knows that. Not.

“Okay, then I’ll just exclude the trains from the search…. or?"

Smart thought… but no. According to the DB, DB Long-distance local trains cannot be excluded from the search.

It probably could have been discontinued, but I assume that the DB was so taken by surprise by the €9 ticket that there was no time to reprogram the travel information accordingly.

So: Check all connections!

So if, for example, you live in southern Germany and want to get to Sylt with the 9 € ticket and therefore have to change trains often, you should check every single train connection to see whether it is not operated by DB Fernverkehr - and if so, look for appropriate alternatives. Sounds like fun, right?

If you don't know your way around anymore, you can also choose the trains based on the " Future Mobility " meme:

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Image source: Future Mobility


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