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FlixTrain (FLX) is marked as regional train, not high-speed/long-distance train #2160

Closed rugk closed 7 months ago

rugk commented 7 months ago

Describe the bug

E.g. the train https://traewelling.de/status/1707094 is shown as a FLX regional train, not a high-speed/long-distance train. Given what it rides it is certainly a long distance though.😉

Steps to reproduce

  1. Search for a Flixtrain at a station.
  2. Press the filter for high-speed trains.
  3. FlixTtain is gone.
  4. Revert and instead press filter for regional trains.
  5. Flixtrain is there.

Browser console logs

N/A

Browser

Firefox

marhei commented 7 months ago

Flixtrain publishes this train in the Hafas as an Interregio train, which is regarded as regional transport in most countries.

The behaviour you describe also exists on bahn.de: your Flixtrain is not displayed when you explicitly search for long-distance services only, but is displayed for regional services.

The error is therefore not with Träwelling, but in the data that Flixtrain itself publishes. I can well imagine that Flixtrain does this on purpose in order to appear in a search for regional transport and thus attract the attention of more price-sensitive customers träwelling with the Deutschland-Ticket.

rugk commented 7 months ago

does this on purpose in order to appear in a search for regional transport and thus attract the attention of more price-sensitive customers träwelling with the Deutschland-Ticket.

Hmm, which would explain why they always say it like 5 times there, that DTicket is not valid and DB tickets neither and you need a FlixTrain ticket… :thinking:

A workaround just for trawelling maybe would be an idea, as it is – I mean come on – it's factually wrong hmm. :thinking:

marhei commented 7 months ago

I don't think it's a good idea to create a workaround for "wrong" data from individual trains.

You can send a mail to Flixtrain, but there is nothing to do on the Träwelling side, because it interprets the data as intended.

jheubuch commented 7 months ago

I also think that the data shouldn't be modified by Träwelling. I guess this would be way too much effort for way too little benefit.

If Flixtrain publishes their trains as regionalExp it is wanted by them as is - so they're describing themselves as (fast) regional transport.