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That's great. So once again they're fiddling around, so that according to Mehdorn the unreasonable routes over 4 hours become more expensive. The shorter routes will admittedly become minimally cheaper in some cases, but remain more expensive than before the last price reform. Somehow I get the feeling that the railway doesn't work for itself but for the airlines, because with higher prices on long-distance routes the railway certainly won't roll up the market there, after all it already has the disadvantage of longer travel times (and no, dear Mr. Mehdorn, just because you now call an IC an ICE and charge more money for it doesn't automatically make it go faster!).
The only positive thing is the elimination of reservation fees for online bookings, but that still has the disadvantage of train binding even with BahnCard 50 - with counter purchases only the reservation is bound, not the card. And automatic machine sales require that the machines actually work ... (and that the route can even be booked via them)
So once again not a great achievement. Of course the railway management's idiotic decisions are never responsible for market failure, only the employees (who can then be laid off) or the customers (whom you apparently want to actively drive away as well).