Joint rail–air ticket for DB ICE Cologne–Brussels
CROSS-BORDER: Deutsche Bahn’s ICE service between Cologne and Brussels will begin stopping at Brussels Airport and be sold with onward flights under a single Brussels Airlines ticket from 7 September 2026.
Brussels Airlines and Deutsche Bahn announced the agreement on 26 February, adding the airport stop and integrating the ICE service into the airline’s booking system. The rail leg will carry a Brussels Airlines flight number.
Passengers can book the rail and flight segments under one reference, with standard airline disruption handling. The rail segment will follow the airline’s normal rebooking procedures.
Embeds a cross-border ICE service
The Cologne–Brussels route will call at Brussels Airport before continuing towards Antwerp. This creates a direct high-speed rail connection at the airport station.
Rail–air codeshares already operate in Europe, but the Brussels arrangement embeds a cross-border ICE service directly in a foreign airline’s booking system at an airport node.