United Airlines, Lufthansa Group and Deutsche Bahn have announced a new commercial cooperation that will offer greater choice and enhanced connectivity for customers travelling between Germany and the U.S. The new arrangement, effective 22 November 2023, will allow United customers travelling between Germany and the United States via Frankfurt Airport to book integrated rail and air journeys with just one single transaction, one combined fare and one single ticket. Customers will be able to connect between 25 cities* in Germany, as well as Basel, Switzerland, and United’s hubs at New York/Newark, Chicago, Washington, Houston, Denver and San Francisco and beyond to destinations across the Americas.

The collaboration builds upon Star Alliance’s Intermodal Partnership model, launched in July 2022, that intelligently combines airline with railway, bus, ferry or any other transport ecosystem, alliance-wide. It is designed to link loyalty systems and facilitate convenient airport/station/port transit.

Customer benefits include the possibility to receive boarding passes for both rail and air sectors when checking in, priority baggage handling and other services in the AiRail check-in area at Frankfurt Airport, as well as the ability for United MileagePlusSM customers to collect miles for rail journeys taken as part of a combined rail/air ticket. Also included is transfer and connection protection in the event of delays and breakdowns. Eligible customers can enjoy access to Deutsche Bahn lounges as well.

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Station Code Destination-Rail Station:

ZWS                Stuttgart HBF
QUL                 Ulm
ZMU                Munich HBF
KJR                 Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden
QFB                Freiburg
QWU              Wuerzburg
ZAQ               Nuremberg
QDU              Duesseldorf HBF
QKL               Cologne/Bonn, Cologne HBF
XHJ               Aachen HBF
DTZ               Dortmund HBF
MKF              Muenster
ZPE              Osnabrueck
DHC              Bremen
KWQ             Kassel Wilhelmshoehe
ZEU              Goettingen
QPP              Berlin HBF
ZVR              Hannover HBF
ZMB              Hamburg HBF
XIU               Erfurt
XIT                Leipzig HBF
XIR               Dresden
MHJ              Mannheim
ZPY              Siegburg/Bonn
AGY              Augsburg
ZBA              Basel

Additional station from December 2023:

ZQU Wolfsburg