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The SNCF, through its subsidiary Gares & Connexions, has unveiled its new renovation plan for the Gare du Nord, Europe's busiest passenger station. Called Horizon 2024, and with the aim of being completed in time for the next Summer Olympics, the project is based on a minimal redevelopment of the station's...

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...

There's a lot of talk about the difficulty of booking a ticket or service on the new SNCF Connect application. But what about other European rail companies? A quick look at the applications used by other rail operators is in order. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. However, we can see that the simple purchase...

Now it's the turn of Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister Delegate for Transport, to ask SNCF to "resolve as quickly as possible" the problems with SNCF Connect, the railway company's new application launched on 25 January. In an interview this weekend on the CNews channel, he added that "the...

Last night saw the launch of SNCF Connect, the SNCF's new digital application and website designed to meet all travellers' mobility needs, including, of course, rail travel. While the Ouigo.com site is still up and running, Ouisncf web customers are now being redirected to the new Sncf-connect.com site, with its astonishing...

At the Grand Live du Voyages d'affaires, held online on 20 January at the initiative of CDS Groupe and the IFTM-Top Resa trade fair, Jean-Pierre Farandou, head of the SNCF, opened the event with an update on the rail company's business news. A business segment that is currently affected by a fall in demand for...

Since Monday, SNCF has reduced its operations. The reason: the health situation, of course, which is affecting not only demand (-30% since the start of the year on the TGV network) but also the group's teams. "It's not a question of unexpected train cancellations, but of adapted transport plans,...

Are you allowed to eat while travelling or not? This is not such a trivial question, following the government's announcement at the end of last week that it would be forbidden to eat food on board trains. Especially on long journeys. Before taking a plane or a train, will we have to hurry up and gobble down some food?

In its annual review of the French rail transport market in 2020, the Autorité de Régulation des Transports (ART) notes that the market remains attractive to new operators. Competition in rail transport services in the European Union came into effect on 13 December 2020. Alternative operators are ready to cross swords with the...

One app instead of two, one website: the SNCF is simplifying its digital relations with its customers. Passengers have been waiting for this change, and the company has been talking about it for several months. It will take shape with the launch of SNCF Connect in January. This new digital service, designed...

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...