makes the highly competitive midsize Fernbusmarkt remote bus companies is becoming stronger. Several North German company have cooperation with the market leader Flixbus completed, including at least four companies from Lower Saxony and one from Hamburg, gave search of NDR television program “Hello Niedersachsen”. Overall, more than 20 companies have dropped at Flixbus nationwide to NDR information. Affected partners would partly retracted high losses. Flixbus dismissed the order back. It is about “a handful” company, said a spokesman for the German Press Agency
It is a popular and competitive market, the spokesman said about facing the remote bus segment Deutsche Bahn. A “centrifugal force” of the order was normal. Despite the tough competition, the number of Flixbus partner had increased in 20 European countries in recent years to 200 or greater.
had the Hamburg bus company Elite Traffic has opted loud NDR after a loss of two million euros, to terminate the contract with Flixbus. This was the “consequence of the disastrous price war on the long-distance bus sector,” said the manager Sebastian Reimers. He stressed that he sees the cause of the economic problems of medium Buspartnern in the low ticket prices, the consequences of which would be passed on to subcontractors: “There are new vehicles requires it be required rested drivers, it is required to comply with the social. And for that the prices are too low. “
Flixbus denied to the NDR the allegations. Elite Traffic can not speak for the entire Fernbusmarkt, also could not comment on possible losses of subcontractors because the company had no insight into their budgets.
According to figures from the market research firm Iges the rapidly grown Fernbusmarkt’s Germany shrunk noticeably in the first half. After the quarterly survey of Iges there are 295 long-distance bus. That’s 31 more than a year ago, but 33 fewer than at the end. Every week, there is an average of 4234 round trips, 638 more than a year ago, but 419 less than at the end, 2015.
The association Mobi Fair, which campaigns for fair working condition in the transport industry, expect loud NDR, get that more medium-partners from the Fernbusgeschäft. In many discussions will clear that coach operators see no way to comply with the legal requirements and at the same time make profits, said Mobi Fair CEO Helmut servants.
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