Deutsche Post Mobility

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Deutsche Post Mobility GmbH
Postbus
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Basic information
Web presence www.postbus.de
owner Deutsche Post AG 100%
legal form GmbH
Seat Bonn
founding 2013
resolution 2016
Managing directors Joachim Wessels,
Marc Fleischhauer,
Klaus Hasenauer
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bus 0 (resolution: 2017)
ADAC post bus next to a historic motor post bus (presentation in May 2013)
Scania with Van Hool (Altano) body as a post bus in Berlin (2015)

The German postal Mobility GmbH was founded on 14 January 2013, the brand "ADAC Postbus" remote bus undertakings incinerating or from April 1, 2015 was made the presentation under the "PO Box". On November 1, 2016, the vast majority of the lines were handed over to Flixbus or discontinued. The last lines were closed on February 12, 2017.

history

For decades, Swiss Post has traditionally been active in passenger transport in Germany (see Kraftpost ). In 1985, however , the Deutsche Bundespost handed over this business area, which primarily served rural areas, to the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

Almost 30 years later, in May 2013, the company , which has meanwhile become Deutsche Post AG , began a cooperation with the ADAC to take up long-distance bus travel. The background to this was the first liberalization of long-distance bus traffic in Germany . The first pilot line between Cologne and Munich started in October 2013, and planned operations began on November 1, 2013. “ ADAC Postbus ” was used as the brand name for the operating company Deutsche Post Mobility , founded in August 2013 . Even in the run-up to the foundation, there was occasional criticism of the entry of the - in Germany today - non-branch, sub-state post into the long-distance bus market. In the summer of 2014, the commitment should be checked in principle, as the responsible Post Board Member Jürgen Gerdes announced.

Medium-sized bus companies were used to carry out the operations. This took over z. T. the complete operational management for certain regions. In addition to the mileage, the regional operational control as well as the handling and coordination of departures in the assigned areas were coordinated, the Post's own control center controlled from Bonn.

In mid-November 2014, the ADAC announced that it would give up its cooperation with Deutsche Post and now completely surrender the shares to Deutsche Post. This would further expand the Postbus network from May 2015, announced Post's board member Jürgen Gerdes . When the ADAC withdrew, it stopped selling tickets in the ADAC branches, but passengers who had an ADAC club card could still reserve a seat of their choice when booking and take a second piece of luggage with them free of charge. The long-distance bus stop ADAC-Zentrale in Munich was given up after the ADAC left the company. In September 2015, Postbus introduced a discount card similar to the BahnCard, the Postbus card, with which passengers received a 25% discount on tickets.

On August 3, 2016, the takeover of Postbus operations by the market leader Flixbus became known.

The majority of the Postbus lines that existed up to then were transferred to the Flixbus service or discontinued from November 1, 2016, after which only the feeders to Munich Airport, also marketed by Lufthansa as “Lufthansa Airport Bus”, operated . The domestic German airport shuttle lines were discontinued on December 15, 2016, the connections between Munich Airport and Salzburg and Innsbruck were continued until February 11, 2017 and until the night of February 11 to 12, 2017. This ended Deutsche Post Mobility's bus service.

Ticket purchase

Tickets were available in all Post and Postbank branches and a selection of post agencies, by telephone via the Postbus booking and information hotline and via the Internet. If there were still vacancies, tickets could also be purchased from the bus driver shortly before the start of the journey.

Route network

In October 2013, two lines were used that connected both Cologne and Munich on different routes. From February 2014 the offer was expanded to nine lines, which now connected around 30 of the largest cities in Germany with around 60 buses. In June 2014, the doubling of the cities served by the “ADAC Postbus” from 30 to 60 from August 2014 was announced. The number of buses used remained constant at 60.

By May 13, 2015, the route network was supposed to grow to 120 destinations, but due to delays in official approvals, the expansion was not carried out until May 31, 2015. For this purpose, additional Scania OmniExpress were ordered, but they differ from the previous model in small details, such as integrated bicycle racks.

vehicles

Used mainly came Coaches Scania ( Scania OmniExpress ) or on Scania - Chassis ( Van Hool Altano ).

The Scania- Van Hool Altano coaches used on the Hamburg-Berlin, Hamburg-Halle-Munich and Berlin-Munich routes were equipped with a boarding ramp for wheelchair users and wheelchair seats in the small low-floor area near the driver's seat other passenger seats were found to be increased as in most coaches.

Express buses

Under the name “Postbus Sprinter”, an express bus line ran from Aachen via Bonn and Montabaur to Frankfurt. 8-seat Mercedes-Benz minibuses were used on this line. The prices were above those of the normal post bus connections.

Cooperations

In August 2015, Postbus cooperated with various national and international companies. On the routes Saarbrücken - Frankfurt Airport , Kaiserslautern - Frankfurt Airport, Bonn - Frankfurt Airport and Regensburg - Munich Airport , a cooperation was entered into with the "Lufthansa Airport Bus", with the connections from Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern being carried out by the Lufthansa Airport Bus and the connections from Bonn and Regensburg carried out by the Postbus.

A cooperation with the Estonian provider SimpleExpress was entered into for connections to Poland.

In addition, Postbus cooperated with Eurolines on various international routes . This made it possible to book over 200 new national connections for Eurolines and 16 new international destinations for Postbus customers. It is noteworthy that with the start of the new route network on May 31, 2015, Deutsche Touring , actually a member of the Eurolines organization, became a bus partner at Postbus and has since served several national routes with the Scania OmniExpress.

literature

  • Götz Franke ( ViSdP ), Carsten Otto, Andrea Bellok, Gabriele Evertz, Marco Wehr (Red.): My BUS. The ADAC Postbus magazine , magazine , H&P Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Leverkusen

Web links

Commons : Deutsche Post Mobility  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The stagecoach starts in November
  2. ↑ Postbus becomes Flixbus. | Postbus ♥ long-distance bus. (No longer available online.) In: www.postbus.de. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016 ; accessed on August 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Postbus becomes FlixBus - FAQ ( Memento from February 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ www.kraftpost.de - 100 years of Kraftpost. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ “ADAC Postbus” starts on November 1st. ( Memento from August 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Deutsche Post press release from May 10, 2013
  6. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten: Joint operating company founded / stops on the first routes have not yet been determined. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Cooperation: ADAC and Post will start long-distance buses from November
  8. ^ Sword of Damocles via APB. ( Memento from May 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: ÖPNV aktuell 11/14 from March 15, 2014, excerpts online on March 17, 2014, accessed on April 14, 2019
  9. ↑ Stambula starts as regional partner north with the ADAC Postbus from November 1st in Hamburg ( Memento of September 28th 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ End of the joint venture with Swiss Post: ADAC exits the long-distance bus market. In: SPIEGEL online. November 10, 2014, accessed November 10, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Deutsche Post controls the Postbus alone. Deutsche Post DHL, November 10, 2014, accessed on November 10, 2014 (press release).
  12. ↑ FlixBus takes over the long-distance bus business of Deutsche Post. August 3, 2016, accessed August 4, 2016 (press release).
  13. ↑ Flixbus takes over Postbus, In: Zeit Online from August 3, 2016. August 3, 2016, accessed on August 3, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Press release: Postbus and Lufthansa Airport Bus are cooperating on airport feeders to Frankfurt and Munich. (No longer available online.) June 26, 2016, archived from the original on January 5, 2017 ; accessed on April 11, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Postbus becomes FlixBus - FAQ ( Memento from February 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Postbus travel dates Munich (airport) –Innsbruck. (No longer available online.) January 5, 2017, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 5, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.postbus.de
  17. ↑ Booking options ( Memento from June 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ ADAC Postbus is a huge competition for the railways. ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ 30 new destinations - ADAC Postbus doubles its network
  20. ↑ http://www.dpdhl.com/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/2015/postbus_drueckt_aufs_gaspedal.html
  21. ↑ Timo Hermann: ADAC-Postbus: long-distance bus with wheelchair-accessible buses. In: Mobilista.eu , October 17, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013.
  22. ↑ Express bus route Postbus Sprinter ( Memento from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ↑ https://www.postbus.de/bus-flughafen/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.postbus.de
  24. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  25. ↑ https://www.eurolines.de/fileadmin/content/unternehmen/Pressemmeldung/Deutsche_Touring_PM_2015_03_Kooperation_mit_Postbus.pdf
  26. ↑ Companies and Partners ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 14, 2019