I can't seem to find information on whether it is possible to purchase the ticket as a non German citizen.
I am 100% sure anyone can buy it. And I am almost equally sure, anyone using it will not get fined.
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#32I can't seem to find information on whether it is possible to purchase the ticket as a non German citizen.
The tickets aren't personalized (some regular monthly passes for public transport are/were though), so you should be fine. Since they aren't personalized and there is no way to check who the owner actually is, I would even expect them to be transferable.
Edit: looks like I was wrong -> see replies. You can also search for "9-Euro-Ticket übertragbar" (übertragbar = transferable) yourself to get a number of different German sources for that.
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#33Denmark is doing a similar thing ...
Soo, i could travel throughout Germany and Denmark for quite cheap?
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#34Some context is given here: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-introduces-9-ticket-to-offset-...
The ticket is part of a support package signed off by the German parliament. The will pay approximately €2.5 billion for the ticket offer, as a response to rising energy prices and the resulting high costs of individual mobility.
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#35Imagine something like this for the whole EU.
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#36I'm sure the private bus operators, who usually are the only cheap option to travel in Germany, are just thrilled by this additional market distortion.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly the opposite. It should've been 0€, because then you: * don't have to sell tickets at all * don't have to check tickets in trains and reduce costs The overhead of selling tickets with the new price points might actually eat up all what's left of profits.
How much does checking tickets cost?
Germany has about 1000 railway locomotives operating 40k runs a day. A conductor job pays on average 50k€/yr. Most trains I've seen have more than one conductor, and you need to plan for weekends, shifts, time off, etc. but the lower bound should be easy to agree on 50M€/yr or 12.5M€ for the duration of the program? Then there is the entire infra to sell tickets online, in machines and in person.
At the same time there are about 2 million rail customers a day, so the 9€ ticket will bring 18M€. I'd say they probably break even.
Math is fun, but the entire point is a bit moot. Germany is a civilised country and if you laid off the entire staff for three summer months with no pay, the union would eat you for breakfast.
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#38Imagine something like this for the whole EU.
Interrail?
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#39I can't seem to find information on whether it is possible to purchase the ticket as a non German citizen.
Yes, it would be a violation of EU law to restrict it.
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#40I think it's great, but honestly, placing it at 15€ would have made only a little difference to the consumer, who is already getting a lot for the value, and helped the railway operators a good deal. As a compromise the age of kids who can travel together with their parents for free could have been raised from 6 to 8 years.
Uh this offer is paid by the railway operators, not by the government?
No. It's paid for by the government and expected to cost around 2.5 billion EUR.
It's part of this: https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Standardar...