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Easter 2024: ÖBB launches additional trains
Around Easter, the Austrian Federal Railways are increasing their offerings on the Southern and Western Railway routes. According to their own information, around 22 additional ones will be brought between March 1 and April 2024, 15.000
Deutsche Bahn AG no longer wants school trips
Deutsche Bahn AG will discontinue the “school trips and group trips” division, which has existed for half a century, by the end of 2024. This was built during the time of the German Federal Railway
Twin City Liner starts the 2024 season
The Twin City Liner, which runs mainly between Bratislava and Vienna, will soon start the new season. The catamaran is currently undergoing maintenance. It starts on March 22, 2024
Flixbus wants to reintroduce customer logins
For around four weeks, the travel group Flix has been charging a service fee for booking tickets for Flixbus and Flixtrain in some markets. However, this is not required everywhere, for example
Regiojet expands its Ukraine offering
The private railway operator Regiojet will launch a new connection between Prague and the Ukrainian city of Chop on March 27, 2024. According to their own information, they have already started selling
Tui Austria is recording an increasing desire to travel
The booking situation for summer 2024 is encouraging. “Summer business is in full swing. Tui’s summer bookings are currently in double-digit growth,” says Gottfried Math, Managing Director of Tui Austria, at the start of the event
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Nice Places: Rust - The stork town in Burgenland
The German Rust is particularly known for the Europapark. The town of the same name in the Austrian Burgenland is much smaller and for numerous storks that raise their young in spring and summer,
Nice Places: Chilling with the dolphins in Eilat
The southernmost city of Israel has an extremely interesting place with the Dolphin Reef, which invites you to swim as well as to watch the marine mammals. It is expressly not a question
Xlendi: Picturesque fishing village with a coffee house flair
Sitting comfortably in the coffee house or restaurant while the children play or bathe in the water very close by? This is exactly what is not only possible in Xlendi on the island of Gozo,
Greek wine and a dreamliner: with the Scoot 787-8 from Berlin to Athens
There are these more or less unknown airlines with which there are few or no intersections due to existing travel preferences. For me personally, Scoot is one of those unknowns
In the test: This is ITA Airways - aka "new Alitalia"
The “new Alitalia”, which decided without further ado as “ITA Airways”, has been in the air since Friday. On Saturday, the carrier made the official maiden flight on the Rome route
A touch of Dolce Vita: with the Singapore Airlines A350-900 from Copenhagen to Rome
If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade out of it ”, this old saying is the ideal starting point for this trip report. The corona pandemic also resulted in numerous frequent flyers and
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ECJ: No nuisance, no compensation
With two recent decisions, the ECJ made it clear that compensation for flight delays is only due if the passenger is actually affected by the delay. In the first case (C-474/22) booked
Car rentals: German law can also apply abroad
Additional fees are often hidden in the small print of the terms and conditions of commercial car rental companies, which can sometimes cost a lot of money. For example, almost all providers charge a processing fee for forwarding
VKI lawsuit: HG Vienna repeals 48 time-sharing clauses
The Association for Consumer Information (VKI) had sued Hapimag AG because of inadmissible clauses in the general terms and conditions of its timeshare contracts. Hapimag is a stock corporation based in Switzerland
Train arrival included: Tour operators are liable for delayed trains
What happens if you book a train trip along with a package holiday and the train is so late that you miss your flight? This was exactly the question
Analysis of the early bird season: This is how Austrians book their holidays
Snow and ice in Austria have fueled the desire to travel. Bookings for the summer holidays are already above last year's level. This is shown by the current figures from the travel comparison portal HolidayCheck. Always
Bridge days: Few vacation days for a lot of free time
If you plan your vacation days cleverly, you can look forward to an extended vacation again this year thanks to the good integration of window days. Up to seven long weekends in March, May, August,
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