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Old Feb 17, 2013, 10:52 am
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FlyingStefan
 
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Some years ago, Lufthansa stopped flying FRA-CGN and also reduced the number of flights STR-FRA. Instead, Lufthansa is code-sharing on "flights" between Cologne and Frankfurt as well as between Stuttgart and Frankfurt with the DeutscheBahn, thus some trains have a LH flight number, you get a boarding pass instead of a train ticket and so on. This way, you don't need to buy a rail&fly ticket to get from Cologne to FRA, but you can simply book it as a flight, check-in in Cologne etc.
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