Werden Konkurrenten der DB wie Flixbus und Co pleite gehen?

The 9€ ticket is a distortion of competition for private passenger transport companies through state subsidies.

What the Nine Euro ticket means for long-distance bus companies like Flixbus

In the pandemic, the long-distance bus companies experienced even greater passenger losses than other passenger carriers. The German company Flixbus had to partially stop their business.

Now the customers are running away again, because in the competition, the Deutsche Bahn, the Nine Euro ticket attracts.

Business Insider has listened to what this means for Flixbus and Co.

Bus companies stay outside

But in the Federal Ministry of Transport no one apparently wanted to talk and so the special ticket action now runs without the German long-distance bus company. Another setback, because on this path Flixbus does not benefit from the EUR 2.5 billion from the state fund, with which the participating transport companies are compensated for the period of the Nine Euro ticket. Flixbus was already empty: the company Flix SE, based in Munich, is responsible for the range of train and buses, has also not received any help from the Corona rescue screen. This was especially tailored to local transport. In 2021 alone, the federal government increased 3.5 billion euros so that the transport companies could compensate for the passenger drop in the pandemic.

https://www.businessinsider.de/politik/germany/was-das-neun-euro-ticket-fuer-fernbusunternehmen-wie-flixbus-me/