airport, it might be the best solution, because we are faster than a train, orfaster than a plane, because of the travel times to the airport and so on. so, the broad use case is not business travel, but i want to be attractive for even the people that mainly travel in business, but this is definitely a room for us to improve our product further, think about new creative ideas on our network and it is also an element on flix train where we want to broaden our customer base to people who might not use bus in that sense to travel from berlin to stuttgart because it is simply a very long bus ride, but on a train they might consider it, and there for three want to also broaden our role towards society and towards consumers.
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 co2 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
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, 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 taking people from a to b, from one city to another, and this is what people are buying. but the way home we developed the product, what you don t see is the different product, the product is the network we offer, the prices we offer, the way we market the product, the brand behind it, the technology, that make the product successful in the marketplace. and andre, i m wondering, certainly nowadays, our younger people more l
than a plain? what definitely happened over the ten years that flix has been active in this space in europe and in the us, in turkey and in brazil, the bus became a better option to travel. so, 15 years ago, most likely you would not have allowed your daughter to take a bus from london to paris, today, if i go to university, the majority, 90% of plus have used a flix bus and consider it for their future travel, so i think we shake the future of the industry in a positive way, and their four the bus is on the way of taking its natural place i would say in mobility. so, we have to provide something for society, and we are part of the solution. but i ll be already in a state when people shift, especially from planes, especially for environment of reasons, to something which is more environmentally friendly, buses or trains, then i would say, to a very limited extent. people are aware of the problem