to have a start up idea and pursue that, but they were very positive in that sense, not necessarily on the idea of doing something with buses, but in the openness of communication and the idea of someone starting his own business. let s talk about your business, andre. you are a global travel company. buses and trains are the main thing that you have, including the iconic greyhound bus network in the united states. and let s be frank here, because people don t think of buses as cutting edge travel. i m just wondering, how has it changed? oh, it has changed a lot. and i agree with you, at the end we are selling the same kind of product that was sold for a very long time. essentially, we bring people from a to b, bring them from city to city b, and this is what people are buying. but the way we developed the product, what you don t see is the different product. the product is the network
and our claim would be, we don t need to forbid people to travel, we need to enable them to travel in an environmentally friendly way, and to date if you stick in a bus compared to your car or even a plane, you are doing something good for the environment because our co2 emissions are lower than even in some countries trains, we are on a high level with trains. so today it is already good to travel on a flix bus. but that is the most important part, we are really doing a lot of work towards net zero. real net zero. so it is not enough for us to be environmentally very good, but we have to get to net zero, and all the things you can read about electric buses, hydrogen buses, we have invested in, not only pilot project but also research and investing money and resources into that. we believe and we know there is a path to net zero for our industry. andre, do you have business passengers? i m just wondering if you could really replace flights for those customers. if you look at our custom
you re doing for fun, but again i think it is more important to focus on the fact that this is really a tool for criminals, so that when you see something that comes across your social media that maybe you weren t expecting, just remember, someone is out there designing that content because they know that you are going to see it and you are exactly who they are going after. erin witte, a reel pleasure having you on the show. thanks for all the advice, really appreciate it, and we will talk to you soon. so far on the show we have been hearing about people taking on a side hustle, some with success and some only to be scammed. my next guest, along with some colleagues, started a side hustle more than ten years ago when he was working as management consultant. today, it is a global travel operation running buses and trains around the world and serving 3a million people last summer alone. so, i caught up with the big boss. andre, real pleasure you having you on the show, and on the show th
the country, we want to provide transportation for people, be it refugees, be it people returning to ukraine, we want to be there for the country and rebuild the country once the war is won, and therefore the team is doing a lot of work towards that. we have a large network in ukraine, we are the only carrier that is operating even towards the east ukraine, so we are trying to follow the ukrainian army and provide transportation as soon as it is safe and we are proud of what the team is doing, the drivers, they are driving in a war zone, it is strange if you are just scheduled out of night services because you say there might be drones at night and you might get bombed, but i am very proud of what the team is doing, so i hope the war ends in a positive sense for ukraine as soon as possible, but we at the moment are also very proud of what we can do to support ukraine. andre schwammlein, the big boss of flix, i really appreciate your time, good luck with everything, and i will check in
buses or trains, then i would say, to a very limited extent. people are aware of the problem of flying around the c02 emissions and climate change, do they completely act according to that and rather sit on the bus? i don t see that on a big scale yet. i hope for a change over the next couple of years. but at the moment it is not visible, people like that if they take the bus there is very little c02 emissions and it is eco friendly, but it is not the main reason why they pick it. how much more environmentally sensitive are you than your rivals? for example, your website talks about a bus with solar panels that runs from dortmund to london, but let s be frank, that is just one bus. and you know this, andre, critics will say that is just green washing. we know that climate change is coming and we have to do something, and we have to get to real net zero and we have to change the way how we live.