Five days into the 9-Euro a month rail/bus business.....a lot of hype is building up over some future package like this (a permanent deal).
What the 9-Euro package relates to? You basically travel anywhere in Germany on a bus, subway, or regional train....day or night. You can't use the inner-city fast trains or the ICE trains. Nine Euro for the entire month.
To cover June, July and August.....the federal government is covering the cost with 2.5-billion Euro. To be honest....both the Bahn and regional states are saying it's not enough and they are still losing money.
So could they bring up a new and permanent deal like the 9-Euro ticket?
I would say there's only three options:
1. You arrange a 9-Euro ticket like this, but for just one week....meaning it's 38 Euro per month. Even then, the government would have to find a bucket of cash (my guess....at least 4-billion Euro) to cover real expenses.
2. Offer this only one or two months out of the year (9-Euro per month) and find enough cash to cover this cost factor.
3. Arrange this as an age thing (under 21 and over 60 years old)....you pay some fifty Euro a month situation.....while everyone else pays 100 Euro.
Is the 9-Euro flooding seats and usage on Friday and Sunday? Yes, and this is the bitter negative. If you've ever ridden on the German railway system on Sundays.....you know that only sixty-percent of the normal trains are in use.
My gut feeling is that after three months of intense use and bitter feelings about crowded conditions.....the 9-Euro ticket won't be that great of a hype.
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