A total of 5.6 million passengers have travelled on the Paris – Saarbrücken – Mannheim – Frankfurt route since June 2007, while the Paris – Strasburg – Stuttgart – Munich service has carried 4.4 million passengers.
Ridership on the two routes increased by 6% in 2013 to reach a total of 1.6 million passengers.
DB says that rail has a 66% market share in the air/rail modal split on the Paris – Stuttgart route and 27% on Paris – Frankfurt, which has a journey time of four hours.
