Overview
- With the Dresdner Bahn opening on December 14, the Flughafenexpress reroutes from Berlin Hauptbahnhof via Südkreuz to BER every 15 minutes, cutting the trip to roughly 20–25 minutes and stopping only at Potsdamer Platz and Südkreuz.
- Direct BER access shifts across the city as RB24 and RB32 provide new links via the east, while Gesundbrunnen, Spandau and Falkensee lose previous direct regional connections to the airport.
- A new morning Sprinter connects Stuttgart to Berlin in about 4 hours 45 minutes via Nuremberg with an evening return, and ICEs run every 30 minutes between Stuttgart and Mannheim with a half-hourly pattern toward Frankfurt.
- Service reductions include fewer ICE stops in the Rhine Valley — notably in Baden-Baden and Offenburg — because the Rastatt tunnel is not ready for operation.
- Further changes span trimmed Innsbruck services due to construction and vehicle shortages, a €63 Deutschlandticket from January, more fast Berlin–Munich ICEs via Halle, and new international options such as Leipzig–Wrocław–Kraków now and Dresden–Copenhagen planned from May.