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Since February 2025, business travellers have been able to present their digital identity card to TGV INOUI, OUIGO and Intercités inspectors. From last October, they have been able to present their driving licence during a roadside check, made available within the France Identité app, while awaiting the possibility to use it for car hire. Now, they will be able to...

With the main holiday departures behind us, SNCF Voyageurs has experienced a derailment with the announced departure of Christophe Fanichet on 21 July. Its CEO since 2020, at the creation of this highly lucrative subsidiary which operates TGV Inoui, Ouigo, Intercités, TER and the Transilien network in…

Malaysia Airlines is strengthening its intermodal transport offering through a new codeshare partnership with SNCF Voyageurs. The agreement will facilitate connections between the carrier's daily Paris-Kuala Lumpur flight and SNCF's 28 rail destinations to and from Paris-CDG airport. The product forms part of...

The California high-speed rail project is of more interest than ever to French rail sector specialists. United within a joint venture integrated into the Momentum Alliance Partners consortium, Keolis and SNCF Voyageurs have indeed just concluded a co-development agreement with the California High-Speed Authority, which is responsible for the construction of the California high-speed rail link. More precisely,...

Kombo continues to develop its services around rail travel by enabling the booking of SNCF train tickets for groups of 10 to 60 people. The booking platform for transport, whether by train, bus, or plane, has set up the address kombo.co/fr/groups for this purpose, which provides access to the company's inventory and fares…

While SNCF refuses to offer its competitors' services on SNCF Connect (see box), the railway company is opening up to international travel by allowing passengers to book German and Swiss trains on its platform, following agreements with Deutsche Bahn and CFF, the Swiss Federal Railways. This partnership...

The third edition of the SNCF Ecomobility Grand Prizes, organised every two years, was held on Tuesday evening. Around fifty applications were submitted, with 44 ultimately being validated. The main criteria for scoring the applications were based on modes of transport for professional travel, commuting, and…

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the France-Brussels link, celebrated last June 12th in the Belgian capital in the presence of Jean Castex, the chairman of SNCF, the rail company announced the extension of the TGV Inoui Brussels-Strasbourg to Basel, Switzerland, from July 2027. The service will be scheduled for Fridays, Saturdays and...

Updated 9 June at 6:00 PM It was already announced as being quite well-followed at the beginning of May, when four SNCF unions filed notice of a strike against the ongoing reorganisation within the group and the spin-off processes which, according to them, are causing dramas among employees. It is indeed expected to be.

Expected on July 1st on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille route, the TGV M should finally begin commercial operation in early September. This is despite the fact that this 5th generation TGV has finally obtained its approval from the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA). Although the commercial loss of the summer season is significant for the SNCF, the…

It's the SNCF's "Arlésienne" (a long-awaited, never-arriving event). The TGV M, which is due to run on the Paris-Marseille axis as well as Paris-Milan in order to compete with Trenitalia, doesn't seem ready to show its white nose on the horizon anytime soon. As a reminder, this "TGV of the future", built by Alstom, was supposed to be launched at the end of 2023, then for the...

"Optimum+ is finding its customers," assures Benjamin Huteau, Director of the South-East TGV Inoui Division, who this week presented an initial assessment of this new class, launched exclusively at the beginning of January on the Paris-Lyon route. An improved version of the Optimum class, which replaced Business 1ère, Optimum+ is offered on all 19 daily return services…

The London-to-Switzerland service project is on track. Eurostar, SNCF, and SBB, the Swiss railways, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect, which foresees a feasibility study for a London-Geneva service by 2030. The three rail operators will thus be able to work on…

Regarded as one of the essential elements of its professional offering, the 11 Grand Voyageur Le Club lounges are receiving particular attention from SNCF Voyageurs. Following the renovation of the Gare de l'Est lounge in January, the company has just reopened access to the one at Paris-Lyon after a nine-week facelift…

Travellers departing from or arriving at Paris CDG airport have just under a year to wait before discovering the CDG Express, which is expected to make its grand debut on 28 March 2027. However, alongside this dedicated line directly linking the airport to Paris-Est station, they will also be able to travel in…

Business travellers who plan to travel by train on Wednesday, June 10th should expect significant disruptions on the railways. The four main railway unions have indeed filed a notice of national strike, feeling that their concerns are not being heard by the railway company's management after several weeks of discussion. Sud-Rail,...

In its latest report, "Travelling by Train: a Puzzle for Passengers," the Réseau Action Climat has highlighted the thirty or so air routes that carry over a million passengers per year between France and European cities, and their similar accessibility by train. The aim is to demonstrate the delay in...

After more than two months of work to extend its ground-floor surface area, SNCF has reopened its Grand Voyageur lounge, Le Club TGV Inoui, located in the frescoes gallery between halls 1 and 2 of Paris-Lyon station. This lounge now covers 630 m² after gaining 20…

While rumours a few weeks ago suggested that Transdev might win the contract, it was ultimately the SNCF that was chosen on 20 April by the elected officials of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region to operate the Poitou-Charentes sector lines until 2037. The call for tenders foreseen as part of the opening to competition…

SNCF Voyages Italia will launch its low-cost TGV Ouigo services in Italy in September 2027, aiming to compete with the two existing rail operators, Trenitalia and Italo (*). SNCF Voyageurs will dedicate a budget of €800 million to this venture. This budget will be used for the acquisition from Alstom of 15 Avelia Horizon trainsets, more commonly known as…