Tuesday, March 2, 2010

The new rights for rail riders



Berlin - Victory for the rail customers! Starting today, new rules apply if a train is delayed again. EXPRESS.DE shows the main changes:
• At 60 minutes late at their destination, there are long-distance back to 25 percent of the fare • For 120 minutes • 50 percent is needed for more than 60 minutes late one night to pay the German Railway Hotel • one expects a delay of 60 minutes , the traveler can withdraw from the trip and get the money back
Changes in mass transit:
• From 20 minutes late may for example an IC o. ICE be used (except as City Night Line trains requiring reservation) • at 60 Min and a scheduled arrival between 0 and 5 clock there are up to 80 euros for a taxi • Up to 80 euros, you have until the last scheduled train of the day and turns out to be the passenger on public transport is no longer up to 24 Clock at your destination can
Conditions and exceptions:
• train • debt cancellation without refund for time not as the ticket BahnCard 100 • triviality to 4 euros