Compensation for DB strike?
I have to travel from Mannheim to Dresden the night after tomorrow. That's why I booked a cheap DB ticket several weeks ago. However, this ticket will expire due to the announced dispute, and all "possible" alternative connections are absurd and time-consuming.
Accordingly, I've now purchased a Flixbus ticket for over €60. My question:
Do I now have the right to a refund for this newly purchased ticket since I was not able to use the DB connections?
Thanks for all the answers 🙂
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No, you only get the purchase price of your ticket.
You’ll get the DB ticket again.
https://bahngebote.de/bahn-tickets
No, of course not. Strike is considered to be more forceful because the DB is not responsible for it.
You’ll get the cheap ticket back. Wait until the trip is virtually over, click on “my travels” and “forgot travels” and then “Request for refund” and “Don’t travel”. You pay the extra costs yourself. I also have to travel with higher costs. That’s it.
But now you get it back.
https://bahngebote.de/bahn-tickets
However, this only works if you have booked a ticket explicitly for the specific journey, which then fails without a strike (long distance mainly) and you can prove that a possible replacement journey does not come into question (e.g. because you have a day date at the travel destination, which is then no longer to catch a day or something).
For all regional tickets, which are valid for later trips, or if only the train connection falls away and you could otherwise get to the destination, it becomes difficult. At the 49€ ticket anyway.
And as I said correctly, strike is force majeure and it is not in the hands of the railway, as it could not directly prevent it by means of technical or organizational measures.
This is the same as the tree on the tracks after a storm or traffic accident on a railroad crossing.
She can’t force anyone to become a striker, not even hire workers would have to. It was different when there were officers on the trains. They are not allowed or allowed to strike and have therefore been substitutes when the employees went out.
Strikes, like storms, are part of the general risk of life that you are facing.