railway companies

To coincide with the French Open tennis tournament, TGV Lyria has renewed its partnership with Swiss tennis player Stan Wawrinka. Two trains running between France and Switzerland bear the effigy of the Lausanne-born player. "Through tennis, ice hockey and athletics, major sporting events bearing the...

At its new headquarters in Brussels, opposite the Gare du Midi, Thalys management unveiled its new fare offer, which will be marketed from 12 September and introduced in December. The railway company's ambition is to bring more...

After the Paris-Lyon line in December 2016, SNCF is launching wifi on the TGV Nord network, departing from Gare du Nord. "This service is in response to strong demand from our passengers", says Jérôme Leborgne, SNCF TGV Nord Director, who points out that "the Paris-Lille route is the second busiest in terms of traffic after Paris-Lyon and at...

Eurostar has just opened a new business lounge in the Gare du Nord. Had "The Lounge", designed by Philippe Starck in 2008, become outdated? Nicolas Petrovic - The inauguration of this new Business Premier lounge is part of a wider investment in the Gare du Nord, particularly in the area dedicated to Eurostar, and...

The SNCF is "simplifying its high-speed offer": this was the title used by the rail group on 7 March to confirm the end of the IDTGV offer, in order to refocus on two brands, TGV and Ouigo. The announcement, published on Tuesday, begins by stating that "IDTGV will not disappear...

On 3 February, the Eurostar teams proudly unveiled their new business lounge. A few hours later, it will replace the lounge previously used by European business travellers, thus freeing up space to enlarge the rail company's waiting room. It will be accessible from 4 February to...

Are you going to increase the number of journeys lasting less than 3 hours? Lyria is offering a non-stop departure from Paris to Geneva at 9.15am in 2hrs 58mins, a journey that is proving very popular with business customers. This remains difficult to implement in the other direction because of the regions crossed, which wish to keep their stops....

"The roll-out of Internet on board will be massive and rapid! The statement may use the future tense, but this little revolution initiated by SNCF is really in the present tense. It's a phrase that business travellers have been dreaming of hearing for a long time, and it became a reality on 15 December with the launch of TGV Connect. This service,...

A few days after blowing out its twenty candles, Thalys is already looking to the future: that of the rail company, of course, but also and above all that of the planet. European Mobility Week kicks off on 16 September, and the company, well known to business travellers, is determined to make the event a...

Between April 2015 and April 2016, the German price comparison website GoEuro studied thousands of prices for journeys booked by customers via its website in 40 European countries. It compared the average price per 100 km of a domestic flight, a journey by...

The United States is rediscovering the advantages of trains, particularly high-speed trains, as a competitive alternative to air travel and a city-to-city link. Alstom is to supply 28 latest-generation TGVs to Amtrak for its Boston-Washington line. Introduced into service in 2000, this 730 km line, which also serves the...

On 2 July 2017, SNCF will begin services on the new Sud Europe Atlantique and Bretagne Pays de la Loire high-speed lines. Bordeaux will then be 2 hours 04 minutes from Paris - a saving of 55 minutes - and Rennes 1 hour 25 minutes, reducing the journey time by 39 minutes. The railway company estimates...

As a cost-saving measure, Deutsche Bahn (DB) is reorganising its activities in France by closing its Paris representative office on 30 June, transferring its activities to Frankfurt. The office was set up twenty years ago, and generated sales of €50m a year through a major groups business, business travel and the...

Free, widespread, accelerated and secure: the new Wi-Fi developed by Thalys over the last few days is sure to appeal to the many business travellers who board the rail company's red carriages throughout the year. Passengers in Comfort 2 class now benefit from free connectivity, just like passengers...

At the end of an eventful 2015, marked both by the terrorist attacks and - internally - by its transformation into a rail company, Thalys is entering 2016 with new ambitions. The carrier is introducing a new low-cost service, called IZY, to face up to the growing competition on the Paris-Brussels route, while taking care...

How did the Captain Train business offer come about? Jean-Daniel Guyot - From the very first days that CaptainTrain was up and running, we were contacted by professionals. The first call we received was from a company director, who was delighted that our platform enabled his secretary to manage all his weekly bookings in an hour, so...