Status: 05/15/2023 08:11 a.m
After the cancellation of the planned 50-hour warning strike on the railways, regional and long-distance traffic in Hamburg started largely according to plan. That said a spokeswoman for Deutsche Bahn on Monday morning.
“Over the weekend, many employees were contacted at short notice to fill as many shifts as possible,” she explained. In long-distance traffic, around 90 percent of the planned trains are currently on the move. The regional and S-Bahn traffic runs largely without strike-related restrictions. At the weekend, Deutsche Bahn still expected that around a third of the planned long-distance trains would not run today.
Long-distance traffic should be back to normal from Tuesday
In some areas, there could still be outages. Passengers are asked to inform themselves about their journeys via the usual channels before starting their journey. From Tuesday, long-distance and regional traffic should run completely normally again.
Train binding is canceled until Tuesday
In order to accommodate the passengers, the railways had lifted the train connection for ICE and IC journeys between Sunday and Tuesday. If trains booked for Monday or Tuesday are canceled completely, the usual passenger rights also apply – these allow, among other things, to catch up on the journey later. Long-distance tickets booked by May 11 for the travel days May 14 to 16 can also be refunded. According to Bahn, Ascension Day is one of the busiest weeks of the year for travel.
50-hour warning strike canceled on Saturday
The 50-hour warning strike called by the EVG union was to begin at 10 p.m. on Sunday and end at midnight on Tuesday. The EVG had surprisingly canceled the planned strike on Saturday. Previously, there had been an agreement in the collective bargaining dispute with the railways mediated by the Frankfurt am Main Labor Court, which will now form the basis of further collective bargaining. The collective bargaining round affects 230,000 employees, 180,000 of whom work for Deutsche Bahn.
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