> There seems to be a lot of competition for buses in Germany
Flixbus market share was 90% in January, read just the other day that it raised to 93% recently.
https://www.statista.com/topics/3361/long-distance-bus-marke...
Flixbus market share was 90% in January, read just the other day that it raised to 93% recently.
https://www.statista.com/topics/3361/long-distance-bus-marke...
I'm not sure if the prices have gone up much in the last year despite the drop in bus competition. I always had the impression that the inter-city buses were competing pretty hard against non-consumption, and Mitfahrgelegenheit services like BlaBlaCar. There were a lot of highspeed 1:40 trips between Berlin and Hamburg that simply weren't happening on Deutsche Bahn for 60-110€ but made sense as 3 hour trips for 9-20€. Bus liberalization also seemed to result in DB introducing more slow trains that could compete on price on popular routes. Market liberalization has been a big mobility win for the young and less wealthy.
It's a common misconception. More precisely, FlixBus merged with MeinFernBus. At the time MFB had the bigger share of the market. FlixBus was chosen as a name mainly because it sounds better to foreigners.