Earning Miles on Deutsche Bahn

[klipp]

Am I right? I am looking for the chance to earn miles by traveling with the Deutsche Bahn. I found on the web site of Deutsche Bahn (on Lufthansa Flyway I found nothing) you earn miles only on:

Metropolitan
Cologne-Düsseldorf-Essen-Hamburg

And ICE-Sprinter

Fra– Berlin
Berlin-Fra
Fra-Muc
Muc-Fra

Or are there any other trains?

[LH738]

ZWS (Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof) - FRA is operated by Deutsche Bahn BUT YOU HAVE TO BOOK THE CONNECTION AS LH-FLIGHT NUMBER (e.g. on Lufthansa Flyway). In contrast to your examples you won't get miles for a TICKET with Deutsche Bahn from ZWS - FRA.

[paulusst]

Be carful with QKL-FRA, although the train has a LH flight number you DONT earn miles there. Kind of weird since it works on ZWS-FRA, but hopefully that will change with the introduction of the new ICE track.

[senya_tsyganok]

https://www.aua.com/en/miles/partner/db_e.htm


The train is coming: Miles & More participants are now able to collect Miles on the following selected rail routes in 1st class:

ICE Sprinter Frankfurt-Munich
ICE Sprinter Frankfurt-Berlin
Metropolitan Cologne-Hamburg
Metropolitan Dusseldorf-Hamburg
Metropolitan Essen-Hamburg

Earn Miles.
Earn 500 Miles per route travelled. If you show the Miles & More card to the ticket collector on the train the Miles will be credited automatically. It is also possible to redeem your Miles for a DB Award train ticket. The Deutsche Bahn AG offers any 2nd class return journey in the whole DB rail network incl. seat reservation for 15,000 Miles. In 1st class you get a return journey for 20,000 Miles.

Spend Miles.
Award tickets can also be used on all Deutsche Bahn train journeys within Germany – with the exception of sleepers, couchettes and monorails trains.
The return journey must be taken at the earliest on the Sunday following the outgoing journey.

[klipp]

as far as I see, you can earn miles on

ICE Sprinter Frankfurt-Munich
ICE Sprinter Frankfurt-Berlin
Metropolitan Cologne-Hamburg
Metropolitan Dusseldorf-Hamburg
Metropolitan Essen-Hamburg

stuttgart-FRA (booked as LH flight)

any other tips?

[LH738]

Earnings

ICE Sprinter Frankfurt-Munich
ICE Sprinter Frankfurt-Berlin
Metropolitan Cologne-Hamburg
Metropolitan Dusseldorf-Hamburg
Metropolitan Essen-Hamburg
1. class: 500 bonus miles

Stuttgart-FRA (booked as LH flight)
Y class: 1000 status/1000 bonus miles(* 1.25-bonus for FTL/SEN)
C class: 2000 status/2000 bonus miles(* 1.25-bonus for FTL/SEN)


edited: correction according to the following post

[This message has been edited by LH738 (edited 05-19-2002).]

[senya_tsyganok]

Please note that you earn miles for 1st class only!

[peter42]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by paulusst:
Be carful with QKL-FRA, although the train has a LH flight number you DONT earn miles there. Kind of weird since it works on ZWS-FRA, but hopefully that will change with the introduction of the new ICE track.</font>

Other FTs told me, that they took the train (as LH flight) from Bonn and got miles for it.

[lewinr]

On this subject, does anybody know where I can find (in English) a complete DB timetable? Some friends want to take the train from FRA to MUC. I looked at the DB website, which seems to indicate that such a trip departs approx every hour (during the day/evening) and take 3.5 to 4 hours. That seems unusually long to me. Perhaps I should be looking in a different place for the high-speed trains? (Is the ICE-Sprinter different from the ICE?)

Thanks
Ron

[LH738]

You can create a personal timetable

http://persoenlicherfahrplan.bahn.de/bin/pf/query-p2w.exe/en?newrequest=yes&protocol =http:

There are two routes (from Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof)
1.) via Stuttgart: leaving at HH:49, direct
2.) via Würzburg: leaving at HH:19, change train in Würzburg

[This message has been edited by LH738 (edited 05-20-2002).]

[Akki]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by lewinr:
On this subject, does anybody know where I can find (in English) a complete DB timetable?</font>

http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/det...n/query.exe/en

gives you information on DB iternaries - including (most) inner-city bus or tram connections.

[ah well, LH738 beat me on this... ]

[This message has been edited by Akki (edited 05-20-2002).]

[peter42]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by lewinr:
On this subject, does anybody know where I can find (in English) a complete DB timetable? Some friends want to take the train from FRA to MUC. I looked at the DB website, which seems to indicate that such a trip departs approx every hour (during the day/evening) and take 3.5 to 4 hours. That seems unusually long to me. Perhaps I should be looking in a different place for the high-speed trains? (Is the ICE-Sprinter different from the ICE?)

Thanks
Ron</font>

The time seems about right, the sprinter makes no stops and is thereby faster (3:21 and 3:24), just see:
http://www.bahn.de/pv/service/zug/pv...ein_isar.shtml

[paulusst]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by peter42:

Other FTs told me, that they took the train (as LH flight) from Bonn and got miles for it.</font>

Thats what I thought. I checked this with M&M and SEN desk three times, and with the help of supervisors a.s.o. they always told me, no miles. So I took the flight CGN-FRA. Grrrrrrrr.......

[alexwuk]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by lewinr:
On this subject, does anybody know where I can find (in English) a complete DB timetable? Some friends want to take the train from FRA to MUC. I looked at the DB website, which seems to indicate that such a trip departs approx every hour (during the day/evening) and take 3.5 to 4 hours. That seems unusually long to me. Perhaps I should be looking in a different place for the high-speed trains? (Is the ICE-Sprinter different from the ICE?)

Thanks
Ron</font>

Ahh:

This was the first ICE Line! HAM-MUC - no stop in FRA Airport. IIRC they go hourly. Just remeber MUC is surprisingly far east to those not au fait with German geography. I remember getting on the train for the first time, thinking: "This'll only take two hours"

Regards,
Alex

[This message has been edited by alexwuk (edited 05-21-2002).]