Originally Posted by yankervitch
I'm going to guess you're referring to this article:
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,wirl2/wi...kel/397/91306/
One thing I don't see in that article, though, is what counts as a delayed train. I can't find the report on the DB site, but as one of the comments down at the bottom mentions, if we suppose that the report is counting anything over a five-minute delay as a verspätung, then a train that is 7 minutes late is counted by this process as late as a train that is 20 minutes late.
I'll agree that there do seem to be more delays than there used to be, but on the whole, still much better than what I've personally experienced with Amtrak.
It seems to be the article I was referring to (I had the printed version) and yes, in this article there is no difference between 7 minutes delay and 30 minutes or even more. Everything above 5 minutes counts as delay. And IMHO this is absolutely okay because there is no difference if I arrive 7 minutes late and miss my connection or if I am 50 min. late and miss my connection as well. In both cases I have a lot of trouble and DB normally doesn't really care about such things.