By the end of 2024, Deutsche Bahn AG will discontinue its “school trips and group travel” division, which has existed for half a century. This was set up during the days of Deutsche Bundesbahn and has been used by many schools and their students over the decades. It is a type of special tour operator where school trips tailored to the needs of schools can be booked from a single source. Most of the offers are within Germany and include travel by train, accommodation and, if necessary, transfers and excursions. Deutsche Bahn AG and its legal predecessor Deutsche Bundesbahn have made a lot of money with school trips for decades. In the future, they only want to offer this customer segment tickets, but no longer offer trips from a single source. The focus in the future will be on group trips outside of schools. Apparently, the state-owned DB Group is no longer interested in classic school trips. In any case, they no longer want to offer schools package deals in the future and point out in a statement that there are enough alternative tour operators and travel agencies on the market. Specifically with regard to school trips, it was said that in future you will only be able to contact the railway for tickets. Anyone who wants packages with overnight accommodation and, if necessary, transfers should then contact cooperation partners. This also means that it could inevitably become more expensive, because the "partners" also want to earn money and have to buy services from Deutsche Bahn. It can be assumed that a surcharge will be factored in, because otherwise the business would not be profitable for the unspecified "cooperation partners". It is