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Had a great talk with DER SPIEGEL about FlixTrain's expansion plans, competition in German rail, and what it takes to build a global company out of Europe. 🚆Last year, we ordered 65 brand-new high-speed trains for the German market, arriving from 2028. Their quality will be top-class, but at the same time, FlixTrain will continue to be the most affordable long-distance rail travel option in Germany.     🌐With the new trains on order, FlixTrain is on track to become the largest private long-distance rail operator in Europe.    For years, FlixTrain has brought real competition to German rail with an affordable alternative for millions of passengers. With these new trains, we're doubling down: more connections, better comfort, and prices that stay within reach. We believe this will lead to healthy competition in the market.   The article is in German, but I'd recommend reading it (AI translators are getting quite good these days).    We covered a lot of interesting topics including:  🏙️ Why we want to connect every major German city, including new routes from Munich  💪 How our product is a great addition to the German market and why it's needed.  🚄 Our 65 new high-speed trains and what passengers can actually expect when they step on board  🌍 What Europe needs to change so the next global tech champion gets built here    We already give millions of passengers an affordable way to travel - now we're bringing it to even more cities across the country.   👇 Have a look at the article Martin Hesse and David Böcking below, and let me know what you think.  

Great teams build great companies. That's why we're proud to celebrate our colleagues in North America, whose feedback earned Flix North America seven 2026 Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards. These awards recognize organizations that excel in specific areas of workplace culture based on results from Energage’s research-backed, confidential employee engagement survey. Based on feedback from employees across FlixBus and Greyhound Lines, Inc., Flix North America was recognized in the following categories: 🏆 Innovation  🏆 Appreciation  🏆 Work-Life Flexibility  🏆 Professional Development  🏆 Leadership  🏆 Purpose & Values  🏆 Technology Industry The awards reflect the culture our teams continue to build every day - one that encourages innovation, collaboration, ownership and continuous growth. Congratulations to all our North American #Flixies on this well-deserved recognition. 💚 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eZsqGu4k

🇹🇷 Kâmil Koç, one of the brands in our Flix family is turning 100 this year.   🚌Kâmil Koç started back in 1926 as Turkey's first intercity bus company, and since then they have carried hundreds of millions of people on their journeys across Anatolia and beyond.   Flix in comparison, is still a young company, so it's really special for us to be part of a story that started almost 90 years before we even existed.   🤝Since we joined forces in 2019, Kâmil Koç has become one of the most valued members of our group. Their experience and history cannot be understated, and it has helped improve our global business.    Kâmil Koç has managed to tie their century of local know-how together with our technology-driven approach at Flix, to make travel even more accessible for everyone, something that is a great win for the Turkish travellers and beyond.   🎉This year, the team, which has been promoting its mission of being “Turkey’s Travel Companion for 100 Years” under the slogan “Your Travel Companion for 100 Years,” will celebrate this important milestone with its travel companions through special campaigns that will run throughout the year.   A 100-year-old brand that still finds new ways to innovate and ways to connect with people - that tells you a lot about the team behind it.   💚 A big congratulations to Cagatay Kepek and the whole Kâmil Koç team. Thank you for carrying this legacy forward with so much heart.   Here's to the next 100 years, and to being everyone's travel companion for many more.

🤖 As of this week every office-based Flixie will get access to Claude Cowork.   This is something I have been looking forward to!   People sometimes ask what makes Flix a tech company when we run buses and trains. The answer is that everything we do runs on a digital layer underneath. Demand forecasting, network planning, pricing, operations. We've been building on machine learning for years because that's what lets us operate the massive network we do.   AI is where that goes next. And I genuinely believe the companies that win here won't just be the ones with the best tools. They'll be the ones where everyone, not only the engineers, actually gets fluent with them.   🚌 That's the idea behind this rollout. Get every function hands-on. Because good judgement around AI only comes from using it. You figure out pretty quickly where it's genuinely useful, where it falls short, and where your own thinking still matters more. You can't learn that from a training session.   What surprised me when I started using it more seriously is the speed. It's not just doing familiar things a bit faster. It changes how quickly something goes from an idea to something real.   We're a travel tech company that connects millions of people across thousands of destinations. The more AI-fluent we become as a company, the better we will be at delivering the best possible experience for the travellers, in the smartest way possible.   💚 Excited to see what our teams build with this.

🤖 FlixBus trips are now available directly in ChatGPT   Travelers can now search for FlixBus and FlixTrain connections through natural conversation, compare travel options, and find the journey that fits their needs perfectly, in a simpler, smarter way all within ChatGPT.   🚌 During my recent trip to Silicon Valley, one topic came up in almost every conversation.   AI is changing how people discover products, services, and increasingly, how they plan travel. Traditional search is still where most search for their travel today, but it's becoming clear that conversational AI and AI agents will play a much bigger role in the years ahead.   📈Conversational AI targets a completely different booking experience than any company thought about just 3-4 years ago, and we believe this new way of searching and booking will only become more and more important. The best companies are not just the ones that are able to integrate AI internally in the company, but also to sell their products where the customers want to interact with them via AI.   That is why I am happy to share that we have launched our own app inside ChatGPT. There will be more and more customers looking specifically to book their trips through AI, and even if it is still a small percentage today, it will grow fast.   💚For us, it's a natural new channel. We have one of the largest networks in the world, and it allows us to offer even more tailor-made travel options to fit the customers' needs the best way possible. And with conversational AI, it’s a great match with the smarter way of searching and booking available.   I am excited to see how our customers will use the app and the learnings we take from it, and do go check it out, maybe you will find a cool connection for yourself!