The departures board at Frankfurt airport includes high-speed trains as well.
Everything marked as terminal T is a train departure from the train station that is directly connected to the airport. They have Lufthansa flight numbers too!
@notjustbikes The buses in Schiphol Airport have the opposite: they have bus, metro, train and flight connections on the in-fli.. I mean in-vehicle information displays.
The 🛫 is just a gimmick, as it only shows those for the next 30 minutes and there is no way you can get from a bus onto a flight that fast. But it does show proper transport integration.
@notjustbikes Is "Koeln" a bit obtuse? It is "Cologne" or "Köln". Gdansk is the only one not in German - We are a bit careful with that one in Germany I guess. Also, why do I make mistakes reading schedules? :/
@HabakukTibatong It's in German, but the board is in a limited alphabet. It's a bit silly that these boards don't support the full alphabet when they have existed for decades, but it's not at all unusual.
@notjustbikes In Barcelona, we have our HSR tracks running very closely to the airport, but there still lacks a station in the airport. I wish we had something similar to Frankfurt in the near future.
@notjustbikes If you're making a video about Germany, a good way of engagement baiting for comments is to speak in broad terms, as if everything you say applies to every Bundesland 😏🤭
The ICE between Frankfurt and Berlin is like 100km/h average, in part as low as 60km/h thanks to rotting tracks and Deutsche Bahn's austerity phase in the 90's.
@phoerious@notjustbikes The standard, non-sprinter connection takes 4h35 for the 552 km from Frankfurt to Berlin, which works out to an average of 120 km/h so you're wrong. Considering that includes 5-10 intermediate stops that's not bad. Compared with the newly built out Munich-Berlin connection which runs at an average of 130 km/h, the difference is only 10 km/h or less than 10%.
@phoerious@notjustbikes I agree with your sentiment that we should invest much more into our rail infrastructure, but let's not make up numbers and argue with actual facts instead.
@jaseg@notjustbikes I sat inside that train just yesterday. True, it's a bit faster from Erfurt to Berlin, but from Frankfurt to Erfurt it's absolutely horrendous. It takes more than 3 hours for 280km. That's, in fact, less than 100km/h average. But even 120km/h is REALLY slow.
@jaseg@notjustbikes I also watched the speed display inside the train. The highest we ever got was 200km/h for a short while, but for the most part it was between 80 and 120km/h, with 60 being the lowest. So I am not making these number up.
@phoerious@notjustbikes I'm not doubting that the train was as slow as 60 km/h for parts of the route. The average speed however can be calculated precisely from the distance and the scheduled duration, and it's not 80 km/h and not 100 km/h. When you start cherry-picking the slowest parts of the route, noting an "average" speed starts to become meaningless.
@jaseg@notjustbikes It happens to be the part that I need to travel most often and it's an absolute nightmare every single time. I hate everything about that route and it's no small part of the full route.
@notjustbikes as others have said it’s a neat service. I use it a lot. Lufthansa have a check in desk at the railway station so you get off the train and drop your bags off there, it’s really easy.
Lufthansa Express trains, with the train technically being „a flight“ (designation, signage etc). You literally check your luggage on the train and it’s automatically routed to your destination through the airport, onto the aircraft etc. You get a single ticket.
@notjustbikes I commented at the time when I flew from Frankfurt to Munich recently that the existence of the flight is preposterous. Glad to see they're easy ahead of me!
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