The mostly private Westbahn is expanding its range of trains. From June 12th, there will be a half-hourly service between Wien Westbahnhof and Salzburg Hauptbahnhof with only three “time gaps”. Between December 2017 and December 2019, the Westbahn was already running between Vienna and Salzburg every 30 minutes. One reacts to the increase in passenger numbers due to the slackening of the corona pandemic and the success of the climate ticket, it said in a broadcast on Thursday.
The Austria-wide public transport ticket has already been sold 160,000 times since October 2021. The climate ticket is also valid on the Westbahn. With the frequency increase, the Westbahn will run up to 57 times a day between Vienna and Salzburg. Westbahn co-managing director Thomas Posch recommends travelers with the climate ticket to make use of the free seat reservation. Demands on the ÖBB In view of the increasing number of passengers, Westbahn would like to see mutual ticket recognition with the state railway. “What was already possible without any problems during the joint Corona timetable of Westbahn and ÖBB between April 2020 and July 2021 must become a permanent facility in order to optimally utilize the overall capacity of the railway system,” says Westbahn co-managing director Florian Kazalek. “We have tried to talk about this several times in recent years,” but so far we have “unfortunately not heard anything.”
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