Originally Posted by
FLYGVA
It would in mosts cases.
If you however buy a deeply discount Super Sparpreis, this does not include the city option anymore. The regular Sparpreis ticket as well as a fully flexible ticket does include the "City Ticket".
Super Sparpreis does offer you the ability to book a city option, which would be an indicatgion for you, that the "City Ticket" is not included
Originally Posted by
Flying Lawyer
If you hold, as the poster suggested, an ICE ticket that includes a City-ticket than you will be entitled to use the Skytrain not in "most" but in "any" case without a further ticket. If you hold a ticket - what the post did not suggest - that does not include a city ticket, that you will not be entitled to use the Skytrain without a further ticket.
Originally Posted by
bruce80
Let me add that any ticket for long distance trains needs to cover a trip of more than 100 km (one way) in order to include a the City option - an ICE ticket to Köln Hbf, for example, wouldn‘t include that.
By the way, I think I remember that, as the Skytrain was first opened (and frequently swapped for a bus due to technical problems), they stated that any railway ticket (and parking tickets for P4-P5-P6) would be valid for the Skytrain - however, that was before the City option had initially been introduced (for BahnCard holders). Did they actually change that rule?
You are all right.
To clarify what I wanted to say is, that the Super Sparpreis tickets of Deutsche Bahn in any case does not include a city ticket any more - equally if the distance travelled is more than 100 km. If you buy a Super Sparpreis from Düsseldorf Flughafen Fernbahnhof to Frankfurt, the skytrain is not inlcuded.
In this forum are a couple of posts highlighting, that long distance train tickets include a city ticket. This is no longer valid as a general statement. You have now to verify, that you train ticket does include a city ticket.