The company Lyria will begin in December next to operate 15 trains TGV Duplex redesigned in its own colours. They will offer passengers greater comfort and new services such as the free wifiThis will result in a 30 % increase in seat capacity. The number of daily services will increase with eight return trips a day on the Paris-Geneva and six on the Paris-Lausanne and Paris-Basel-Zurich. To compete more effectively with air transport, a cadence will also be introduced, with a TGV every two hours between 6.18am and 8.18pm from Paris to Geneva, and from 6.29am to 8.29pm in the other direction. Following a trial launched in 2018, the three travel classes Standard, Standard 1ère and Business 1ère will now be marketed on the three France-Switzerland routes. This gives the opportunity
TGV Lyria to launch a Standard travel service for the French market. professional customers with exchangeable and refundable tickets in exchange for €5,000 a year being spent in this class. "Our ambition is to make rail travel with TGV Lyria even easier and more flexible, with a carbon footprint 23 times smaller than that of air travel."says Fabien Soulet, CEO of TGV Lyria.
