A successor to the 9-euro ticket has been pondered for months. A solution has now been found. The federal and state transport ministers have agreed on a “49 euro” ticket. When should the ticket be available, where is it valid and how does the “Deutschlandticket” work?

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It will still be some time before the “49 Euro” ticket is available as the official successor to the 9 Euro ticket. Interested parties can pre-order it now and drive off with it from the first day of validity.

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49-euro ticket: From when & what can you travel with it?

This is known so far for the 49-euro ticket:

  • When will the offer start? After the announcement in autumn 2022, according to Chancellor Scholz, it should be introduced “as soon as possible”. A start was planned for January 2023. In the meantime should be May 1st as the start date apply to the Germany ticket.
  • The price is per month. Berlin’s Senator for Transport, Bettina Jarasch, advocates a staggered offer so that the ticket is also available to people who cannot afford 49 euros a month for it (source: Tagesspiegel.de).
  • Where should the ticket be valid? Like the 9-euro ticket, it should be valid for all journeys in local public transport throughout Germany. You can use it, for example, to travel on regional trains of the Deutsche Bahn as well as in regular buses, subways and other means of transport in city traffic. The ticket will not be valid for long-distance travel. So you can’t use it to travel on the ICE or IC. It is not yet clear whether it will be possible to use the Flixbus and Flixtrain. However, those responsible for Flixbus want the company is includedotherwise you would be at a competitive disadvantage.
  • The ticket is as “paperless” solution announced. So there should be no printed ticket that you can pull from a machine. What exactly that means is still unclear. For example, it could be a digital version give that you show via app. Also one plastic card is conceivable. It is assured that the driving license barrier-free will be and, for example, seniors without smartphone experience will not be excluded by a purely digital variant (source: WDR).
  • Where will you be able to buy the 49 euro ticket? Since there is supposed to be a paperless variant, selling at the vending machine is almost impossible. You will probably be able to buy it online, in apps and in the centers of the transport associations. The Germany ticket app is already available, where you can pre-order the ticket.
  • What about existing ticket subscriptions? As with the 9-euro ticket or the 29-euro ticket in Berlin, it should again come down to a solution in which an existing subscription continues and the difference is refunded. Information will be available from the respective provider of his travel subscription. Employers could pass on the Deutschland-Ticket to employees as a cheaper job ticket.
  • Can you take a bike with you? A bicycle transport is not included. The bicycle club “ADFC” demands that you take it with you free of charge (source: Merkur.de). However, even with the 9-euro ticket you were not allowed to take the bike with you for free, but had to book an additional ticket.
  • There could be an alternative, cheaper model for students, trainees and pupils.

49 euro ticket: is it transferrable? How long should it be valid?

The price of 49 euros is initially planned for the first year. Then you want to get together again. An inflation-related increase cannot be ruled out.

  • The driver’s license should personalised and therefore not transferable. You cannot simply give the ticket to someone else to use. It is not known whether there will be a carriage regulation for passengers.
  • The ticket should be similar to the 29-euro ticket in Berlin in a subscription model to run. So you buy not a new ticket every monthbut bay a subscription with a term. But this should monthly cancellable being. The NRW transport minister Krischer want a “The lowest possible introductory offer” so that you don’t have to take out an annual subscription for the ticket immediately.
  • How long should the 49-euro ticket be valid? The model of the 49-euro ticket should at least over the next 2 years Tobe offered. The offer will then be reviewed in order to plan a possible continuation.
  • The federal and state governments should jointly finance the Germany ticket. The costs are said to be around three billion euros per year.

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