Originally Posted by
seawolf
Clear as mud.
From a foreigner's perspective, all I know is I brought a ICE ticket on bahn.de from "Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf" to "Düsseldorf Flughafen." One would have expected that would coverage transportation to the terminal. Who knew you had to buy an additional ticket for Skytrain or
walk the 2.8 km between the train station and the terminal.
No idea if the ticket is "special" enough to be a a special DB tickets, such as City plus, NRW-, Schöne-Reise-, Schöne-Fahrt- and the Schöner-Tag ticket"
I always wonder why I need to pay five dollars (and not just 1,6 euro) for the Airtrain from JFK to the subway....
Given you are from NY the DUS concept should not be a surprise for you.
The only difference between our country and then US is the more philosophical approach that the German system is based on trust (no fare gates) whereas the US system is based on 100 percent control.
This is however a more general approach in this country: we expect our fellow citizens to comply with the rules and do trust that they do it.
We will, however, survive a few guest that don't understand the concept because they don't pay unless they are forced to pay by fare gates.
Again, given that you are from NY you should have no problem to understand that the Acela Express is not the subway and you need tickets for both. Even if you find excuses to avoid the result you don't fancy.