Rail ticket valid on DUS skytrain?
Nov 11, 2018, 7:16 am
#91
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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
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
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. 
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?
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 This is no longer valid as a general statement.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.
Nov 13, 2018, 10:13 am
#92
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For most foreign inmates, the situation changed to the better since their ticket now frequently includes the city ticket. For Bahncard holder it changed to the worse since a certain type of ticket is excluced from their former benefit. Everybody opting for the ultra cheap Super Spar Preis needs to be aware that the ticket is limited to train services not including any local public transport (unless you opt for the City option and pay an extra 2.60 EUR).
As easy as this :-)
Nov 15, 2018, 5:07 am
#93
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Actually, the „SuperSparpreis“ is not that „ultra cheap“ - from what I‘ve seen so far, there is (very much like on Lufthansa Group) a flat 20 EUR fare difference (for one-way travel) between „SuperSparpreis“ and „Sparpreis“. The only actual difference between the two fares is the inclusion of a CityTicket and the option to cancel the ticket for a fee for „Sparpreis“. So, if you are unlikely to cancel (everybody else will probably opt for a Flexpreis ticket anyway), it practically never pays off to buy „Sparpreis“ instead of „SuperSparpreis“ - even if you use the CityTicket on both departure and arrival, a one-way walk-up fare for the bus/tram/etc. would have to be at least 10 EUR in order to make the „Sparpreis“ worth it (usually, you will never have to pay more than 3 to 4 EUR for a ticket covering thr entire area of validity of the CityTicket). Hence, you should definitely do the calculations before choosing Sparpreis over SuperSparpreis.