50,000 more seats: Deutsche Bahn is adding more seats for Christmas

50,000 more seats
Bahn increases for Christmas

After the Corona slump in 2020, there could be full trains again this year for the holidays at the end of the year. Deutsche Bahn is already gearing up for high demand around Christmas. There should be thousands of additional seats.

Around the holidays, many more trains should run in Germany than before. Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer announced a significant expansion of rail traffic. “In Christmas long-distance traffic in 2021, the train offers 510,000 seats per day and thus 50,000 more than in the previous year,” said the CSU politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group.

In addition, the railway plans to use so-called amplifier trains for the days of Christmas traffic. This again leads to “several thousand seats per day”, announced Scheuer.

From the timetable change on December 12th, the offer of the railway will increase by eleven percent, it is said. The railway is setting up new connections with the ICE Sprinter (express train that hardly stops) between North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin and between Munich and North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition, a new IC line is to be built between Frankfurt and Münster or Dortmund.

According to the newspapers, the range of railways is growing not only compared to the first Corona winter, but also to the pre-Corona period. According to the Ministry of Transport, around 63,000 more seats per day will be offered in December 2021 than in December 2019. Minister Scheuer appealed to the population to take the opportunity to “start the festive season in a climate-friendly and relaxed manner”.

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