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Re:The frequent fliers who flew too much by bergie on Monday May 07, 2012 @05:06AM (#3938260)
Deutsche Bahn (German railways) provides this option, you can buy a "100% discount" yearly card to either first or second class. But these are quite expensive.

Just hop on the next train: BahnCard 100 offers 12 months travel on all DB services. It only costs 3,990 EUR for standard class and 6,690 EUR for 1st class.

They also have 25% and 50% discount cards available. The 50% is quite a good deal, as I think I paid mine back within the first week of getting it.

http://www.bahn.com/i/view/DEU/en/prices/germany/bahncard.sh...

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Re:The frequent fliers who flew too much by excuse-me on Monday May 07, 2012 @11:39AM (#3939438)
Railways have an even lower marginal cost than planes. DB would rather have a person travelling in the seat for 'free' and encourage ridership than have it empty.

Airlines used to think this way - the marginal fuel cost for a seat was something like $10 (essentially it only costs you at takeoff). But then airport improvement fees, security fees, faa upgrade fees meant that they were paying out $100s for passengers who were travelling for free.

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