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Simplifying the passenger's travel experience and promoting sustainable mobility. This is what ITA Airways and Trenitalia are now offering at Rome Fiumicino airport with the launch of an Air/Rail product. A single ticket for plane and train The offer allows passengers to combine plane and train travel on a single ticket, with baggage check-in and...

1,356: that's the number of train journeys analysed in a report by the European Commission, which wants to boost the share of rail travel within the European Union. The report (available in English only), entitled "How fast are rail trips between EU cities and is rail faster than air?", shows that air travel is still in the...

Then there were the German conservatives of the CDU and CSU. Then the Federal Court of Auditors. And on Monday 24 April, the Monopolies Commission. All three are making the same demand: fundamental reforms to the structure of Deutsche Bahn, including a possible break-up. "In the opinion of the Monopolies Commission, the...

Travelling from Vienna airport to Graz or Klagenfurt, the two main cities in southern Austria, can be a long, long way. This is despite the fact that, in 2020, Austrian Airlines has entered into a partnership with ÖBB railways to transport passengers by train from Graz to the airport....

Europe continues to strengthen its cross-border rail services. A new rail link between Dutch Railways (NS), Arriva and SNCB is due to get under way in December on a project linking the three main cities of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, Liège, Maastricht and Aachen. The regional governments of the Euregio have initialled a memorandum of understanding...

As if to honour the 175th anniversary of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), passenger traffic improved in 2022. Admittedly, the result was impacted by a first quarter still under the influence of Covid. But in 2022, a total of 423.5 million passengers travelled on all trains...

London's fourth airport is often overlooked: Luton, 50 km north of the British capital. Yet this airport is far from marginal. In 2019, Luton flirted with the 18 million passenger mark, and last year the airport welcomed 13.1 million passengers. That's an increase of 186% compared with...

An agreement was reached in Warsaw at the end of January as part of the Railway Direction Days event. The aim of the conference was to generate and rationalise joint investment in railways. The agreement covers all the countries in the Visegrad group (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic), as well as the Baltic States and...

This is a welcome simplification for passengers on Dutch rail services. Since 31 January, passengers on NS trains travelling at full fare in second class can make a journey simply by using a contactless debit card, a credit card or their mobile phone. This facility avoids the need to buy tickets first...

In 2017, SNCF recorded a profit of €1.5 billion. This year, the national rail carrier broke that record. According to revelations in the daily Le Parisien, SNCF will have made a record profit of €2.2 billion this year. This information is due to be officially confirmed by the rail operator next February, at its annual...

Planning for the Digital Schiene Deutschland (Digital Rail Network in Germany) is gathering pace. The Federal Transport Minister, Volker Wissing, and the Director of Infrastructure at Deutsche Bahn (DB), Berthold Huber, signed agreements to this effect in Berlin on 8 December. As a result, the contract to finance this infrastructure has been increased from approximately...

It is one of the European Union's major infrastructure projects. The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel began in 2020. It is one of a number of new constructions designed to improve mobility in Europe. The 18 km-long tunnel will be built on the Fehmarn Strait between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland....

It currently takes up to 3? hours by car to drive the 290 km from Abu Dhabi to Sohar, one of Oman's main ports in the north of the country. But this is set to change within the next decade. Oman will soon have a rail network. Will there soon be trains between Abu Dhabi and Dubai? Etihad Rail...

If the punctuality of the rail operators invited on Wednesday by Trainline is anything to go by, business travel in France is certainly on the right track. The round table organised by the European distribution platform kicked off right on time - and even a little early...

While London's Heathrow airport is making headlines in the UK for its interminable queues, the Heathrow Express train service is now offering a major "plus" for its users. 1st class passengers on the 15-minute line between Paddington Station and the UK hub's five terminals will now have access to the...

The announcement is due to be made official on Monday 4 July. But the whole of the German press is already talking about it: Deutsche Bahn is to become a new member of Star Alliance, a first in the world of airline alliances. Deutsche Bahn is already a partner of Lufthansa on routes between Germany and Frankfurt airport. But now it is to become the...

Thalys and KLM have signed a cooperation agreement to develop their Air/Rail product in order to continue to be a more attractive alternative for passengers. In particular, the aim is to increase the number of customers who take the train from Brussels to Amsterdam Schiphol airport and then take a KLM flight. For some time now, KLM has been...

This is a major battle-horse for ACI Europe (Airports Council International): the end of short-haul air services, replaced by rail links. In Europe, Air France and the Lufthansa group have championed this cause, often under pressure from politicians. Northern European countries, led by Scandinavia, have also launched...

Brussels-Amsterdam by train? The Thalys high-speed train immediately springs to mind. It currently runs eight times a day between the two cities in 1 hour 52 minutes. In comparison, the NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) in cooperation with the Belgian railway company SNCB links the two cities 11 times a day on average. But with a journey time of...

The two railway companies RENFE and SNCF are to cease joint operation of the high-speed train lines between France and Spain. Cooperation between the two carriers will cease at the end of 2022. Launched in 2013, the lines operated jointly by the two operators have never been profitable, and SNCF has been unable to...