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Don't you know that there are seats on long-distance trains?

Unless people start sitting on each other's lap the aircon capacity is not going to be exceeded.

In German long-distance trains, seat reservations are not mandatory and capacity is planed while taking into account that some passengers might not get a seat. Most regional trains (which is where this ticket is valid) don't even offer seat reservations.

This article seems to be discussing local mass-passenger trains going from town to town in Germany, so I assumed it was trains with seats + passengers standing. Is that not the case for the purpose of this article?

On these trains you expect a seat outside rush hour.

It will be a less comfortable seat than a long distance train.

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