The Occurrence for less short-haul flights is cheap, but to achieve progress in this matter seems to be very complicated. In a free society, it is not good to ban flights to and from Hamburg or Berlin to Frankfurt with the stroke of a pen. The solution can only enhance the look, the Alternatives to such an extent that flights appear only as a second-best solution.

in this respect, it is a small, but in the right direction step, if Deutsche Bahn and Lufthansa to expand the “train to the plane”. Of course you can always buy just a train ticket and travel with the next train to a hub like Frankfurt airport, where a long-distance journey. With the offer “Rail & Fly”, there are attractive conditions for it. The Trick in “train to the plane”, however, lies in the fact that someone who is looking in the Lufthansa search engine after a flight from his home airport in the distance, over Frankfurt, as a Shuttle, a train unasked connection is displayed, for the furthermore, there are no additional ticket is necessary. A boarding card is sufficient.

Calls for more to be ready for the customers

The ideal solution is still by no means. Anyone who travels by train to Frankfurt, the Luggage here, it starts with a short-haul flight, he can give it up at his home to the airport already.