Business is going better than expected
Bahn promises: 9 out of 10 trains run on time
05/15/2023 8:02 am
The 50-hour warning strike has been called off, but that too has put Deutsche Bahn in trouble. Personnel for the trains that are now running must be organized quickly. And this seems to work better than was feared on Sunday. In long-distance traffic, nine out of ten trains run regularly.
After the cancellation of the two-day warning strike, the trains “largely” ran as planned on Monday morning, according to Deutsche Bahn, a railway spokesman said. Thousands of employees were contacted at short notice over the weekend to fill as many shifts as quickly as possible. In long-distance traffic, around 90 percent of the regularly scheduled trains would be running on Monday. Travelers should find out which trains are running. The regional and S-Bahn traffic runs largely without strike-related restrictions.
At the weekend, Deutsche Bahn announced that a third of the planned long-distance trains would not operate on Monday. All ICE and IC trains will only be back on the road as planned from Tuesday. Deutsche Bahn cited the difficult organization as the reason for the limited offer on Monday: Around 50,000 train journeys in long-distance and local transport would have to be rescheduled with the corresponding shift and deployment plans. Some of the wagons and locomotives would have to be brought to new departure points.
On Monday, Deutsche Bahn announced that the full range of trains would be available to passengers in long-distance and local transport on Tuesday. Restrictions can still be expected in freight traffic on Monday and Tuesday. The warning strike called by the railway and transport union (EVG) was to begin at 10 p.m. on Sunday and end 50 hours later, at midnight on Tuesday.
The EVG had surprisingly canceled the planned strike on Saturday. Previously, there had been an agreement in the collective bargaining dispute with the railways mediated by the Frankfurt am Main Labor Court, which will now form the basis of further collective bargaining. The collective bargaining round affects 230,000 employees, 180,000 of whom work for Deutsche Bahn.