railway companies

Business travellers are resigned to the strike. At least that's what Traveldoo thinks, based on a study published on 13 April. According to the travel management company, the French are used to strikes, which would explain why only 50 % of them postponed their April trip. This type of situation...

Dutch Railways (NS- Nederlandse Spoorwegen) continues to work on improving punctuality and service. The Dutch company runs 4,000 trains every day, carrying more than 1.2 million passengers. The company, which has just announced a profit of 32 million euros, has launched the modernisation of its rail fleet,...

On 4 April, Eurostar began its 300 km/h services between London St Pancras and Rotterdam - reached in 3h01 - and Amsterdam, which will be reached in 3h41. Starting with two trains a day, at 8.31am and 5.31pm from the British capital, this new high-speed rail service is being sold at...

The SNCF strike continues on 4 April, called by four unions. On the Transilien and TER networks, management expects 1 train in 5 on Wednesday. As for the "long-distance trains", i.e. the TGV and Intercités, only 1 train in 7 should be running today on average. [caption id="attachment_72245" align="aligncenter" width="700"]...

Long a monopoly, Deutsche Bahn has been facing competition for more than a decade, and for the time being this has only been on regional routes. With one striking result: Deutsche Bahn's (DB) share of the market is shrinking year on year. Admittedly, the German national rail carrier remains number 1 with...

As the SNCF prepares to face a 36-day strike notice issued by the unions until June, Thello, the French subsidiary of the Italian railway company Trenitalia, presented its results and future development plans on 21 March at the Paris-Lyon station. Roberto Rinaudo, CEO of Thello, prefaced his presentation with a...

Thalys has decided to discontinue its service between Lille and Amsterdam from the next annual service in 2019, on 10 December. Launched in April 2014, according to the rail company, this route has never found its audience, with occupancy rates too low - 25% on average for the four trains - due in particular to...

The new Business PREMiÈRE service, launched in 2017 by SNCF, has clearly found its audience. The rail company experimented with this new range of services on its Atlantic lines, and claims to have received a lot of positive feedback from business travellers. This response is now prompting the carrier to harmonise the rest of its busy routes...

Eurostar is now offering Amazon Prime Video to its passengers. The cross-Channel company has signed an agreement giving train passengers access to part of the company's catalogue. For the moment, only six series are available, including three aimed at children. On the programme: Man in the High Castle, a dystopian series depicting a world...

Gone is Eurostar Frequent Traveller! The railway company linking London to Paris, Brussels and soon Amsterdam is launching Club Eurostar, a new loyalty programme presented as more flexible and comprehensive in terms of the benefits offered. The aim is to increase the number of members - currently 400,000 - by building loyalty and offering greater flexibility and benefits.

Having arrived a little early, it was in the Grand Voyageur lounge at Paris-Lyon station that we began this test of the new Business 1st of TGV Lyria, the Franco-Swiss rail company owned by SNCF and CFF. Located in a corner of Hall C, on level -1 of the station overlooking the Place...

Why launch a Business 1st class on 10 December? Andreas Bergmann - After drawing up a portrait of tomorrow's consumer, TGV Lyria decided to anticipate market developments. The two-class model was no longer appropriate, as needs have expanded. This move to three classes means we can better meet the needs of all segments...

This is the biggest project in the history of Deutsche Bahn, which has taken 25 years to complete. The inauguration of the Berlin-Munich high-speed line, scheduled for December, will put the finishing touches to the country's reunification, reconnecting East and West Germany after four decades of separation... The railway line, which passes...

What led you to launch this international API? Daniel Beutler - We started with a B-to-C platform, called Captain Train at the time. After a while, we realised that certain accounts were associated with a hundred or so sub-accounts, with email addresses with identical extensions. So we...

"The response from business passengers has been very positive, with Business 1ère guaranteeing greater fluidity, comfort and assistance", explains Fabien Soulet, Director of the Business, Corporate and Travel Agencies market at the SNCF. In fact, in addition to the advantages in terms of exchanges and refunds, customers travelling with a TGV Pro ticket in...

The "OUI.sncf" transformation is a daring gamble for Voyages-sncf.com, the leader in French e-tourism, with a turnover of €4.1 billion in 2016 for 86 million tickets sold, including 75 million in France (+4.41TP3Q/2015). "In a negative context marked by attacks, strikes and floods, we have managed to fetch...

Thalys is once again playing the originality card to encourage the general public to take a voyage of discovery. From September 12 until the end of the week, the rail company is offering Parisians the chance to travel to Amsterdam, Cologne, Brussels and Paris, without leaving the Marais or even getting off the train...

If only practice matched theory in the world of travel... If only we could be sure that every train actually left the platform at the precise time indicated on its ticket, whatever the format: paper, mobile, loyalty card... Since it is impossible to achieve this ideal, which is shared by every business traveller, Trainline is working...

After the Paris-London route, the new Eurostar e320 trains are starting to run between London and Brussels. To accommodate these higher-capacity Siemens trains, the terminal at Brussels-Midi station has had to be reconfigured, with an enlarged departure area and an optimised check-in area for the installation of passport control...

Sixteen million passengers have travelled between France and Germany since the creation of the Alleo commercial alliance. Two out of three customers now choose the train between Paris and Stuttgart, thanks to the six daily round trips in 3 hours 08 minutes (including 1 extended to Munich) and one passenger in three between Paris and Frankfurt with 5 round trips...