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A new payment method is being tested on the SNCF Assistant app: the Edenred Ticket Mobilité. From 28 October to 18 December 2021, this solution from the world leader in digital payment solutions for specific uses will be available on the rail company's app. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="119845"]...

The Paris-Lyon TGV line is one of SNCF's historic routes, and is still the focus of the rail carrier's attention. At the heart of its traffic and above all the income of the Voyages SNCF branch, it now accounts for 24 daily return TGV services (including two OUIGO services), compared with 13 when the line was inaugurated by President François Mitterrand in September...

Of course, the croque-monsieur is still very much on the menu. But purists will no doubt cry sacrilege, as it has been revisited by young chef Alexia Duchêne, who has been responsible for the recipes of the dishes sold on SNCF Inoui TGV trains since 14 October. Her colleague, pastry chef Nina Métayer, is responsible for...

Worried before the summer about the return of business travellers to its TGV and Intercités services, SNCF is now rather reassured, even optimistic, based on traffic observations in September 2021. "60 % of business travellers with a Pro fare are travelling again. This figure even rises to 75 % if we take into account...

The inauguration of Montparnasse station was impeccably timed and, like all the work completed on schedule, started exactly on time, to the minute. Even the incursion of the CGT railway workers failed to derail a timed organisation bringing together the major players in the French rail sector. Unfortunately...

Updated on 21/9 at 13:30 One of the major projects planned for the 2024 Olympic Games. The transformation of the Gare du Nord will not happen after all. Or at least not right away, and not in the way envisaged in the concession contract awarded in February 2019 to...

Presented at the beginning of June, at the same time as its new leisure fares policy, the SNCF's teleworking offer came into force on 1 September. The Mon Forfait Annuel Télétravail pass meets the new expectations of all those professionals who have moved away from the big cities, in search of a better life balance, to work from home....

MaaS - mobility as a service - is becoming more and more topical by the day. Recently, the RATP unveiled a new version of its app, now called Bonjour, which is based on the acquisition of Mappy at the end of 2020 for itineraries and on partnerships with urban mobility players such as Marcel VTCs or scooters...

For 25 years now, Air France and SNCF have been offering customers a service that combines rail and air travel in a single booking. This solution allows many French cities to be integrated into the Air France network. Called "Train + Air", this "combi" package is...

175 years of the Paris-Brussels route, 25 candles for the Thalys company, but also - and this is much more topical for business travellers - an increase in frequencies after a year and a half of sluggish activity: June is a month of celebrations for the Franco-Belgian carrier, a subsidiary of...

The launch of a new pricing policy at SNCF had been announced a long time ago. It was unveiled in June, just before the summer season. This should make leisure travellers - who are the first to be affected by this change - want to take the train again, at the cost of rethought benefits....

After reducing its offer during the last lockdown, SNCF is increasing it again with the lifting of the ban on journeys of more than 10 km on 3 May. From four TGVs out of ten in recent weeks, the Inoui and Ouigo high-speed offer will gradually increase to reach eight TGVs out of ten in...

The Occitanie region and Toulouse Métropole can celebrate after four years of battle over a highly political project. On 27 April, a letter from Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed that the French government was committing €4.1 billion to funding the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed line. By 2030, the project will have...

Faced with a drop in bookings of 70 % for April and May, SNCF is revising its offer downwards. With the introduction of stricter health measures in 18 départements at the end of March, the company had already reduced the number of TGVs in circulation from three to four since...

One week after the announcement of a reconfinement in sixteen French departments, Aube, Nièvre and Rhône join the territories under restriction. In these three departments, mobility is restricted to a 10km radius, and inter-regional travel is prohibited except for compelling or professional reasons. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="107011"] The SNCF...

The SNCF announced the launch of this new service back in January, when it presented its Planete Voyages eco-mobility project. Now it's done: its mobility comparator has been online since 4 March on the home page of the OUI.sncf website. Journey times by train, but also by coach, car,...

Voyages SNCF intends to play an active part in reducing the rail group's emissions by 50 % by 2030, the target set by SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou. To this end, it is launching Planète Voyages, an ecological mobility project based first and foremost on raising awareness and training staff and on-board personnel...

This rarely happens in the UK. The employers' organisation London First, which brings together many of the UK's largest companies, has written to ask the Treasury and the Department for Transport to take action on behalf of Eurostar. In their letter, they urge "swift action to safeguard the future of the rail carrier". They want...

The stricter containment measures introduced in Germany at the end of December have now been extended until the end of January. The country has seen a sharp increase in cases of covid-19 over the last three weeks, and seems to have lost control over the spread of the virus. All non-essential shops are now closed, restaurants...

More trains, more regularity and less impact on the environment: this is the promise embodied by the autonomous train, promoted by SNCF. With this in mind, the rail operator took another step forward a few weeks ago. The SNCF has just announced that it is running a partially autonomous train between Longwy and Longuyon, in the east of France...