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10 December 2017. On that day, TGV Lyria business passengers were curious to discover the newly launched Business 1ère class between Paris and Geneva. While the first-class seats have not changed for the time being - the rolling stock is not due to be renewed until 2020 - the Franco-Swiss company has begun to upgrade the...

This Thursday 3 May sees the start of another round of strikes, both on the SNCF network and at Air France. On the rail network, SNCF expects to operate half of its scheduled TGV services. Internationally, 3 out of 5 trains should be able to accommodate business travellers. The Lyria network (2 trains out of...

A third of TGV services are expected to be operational this Tuesday 24 April, due to the SNCF strike. The Intercités network will suffer the same fate, while half of operations are expected on the international network. The SNCF is predicting little disruption to traffic, particularly on the Eurostar network - with 4 out of 5 trains...

The week begins with another strike day: on Monday 23 April, 28.1 % pilots, 19.6 % cabin crew and 13 % ground staff are on strike at Air France. Air France therefore plans to operate an average of 75% of its flight schedule. The network...

With another day of strikes disrupting SNCF operations on 19 April, 1 TGV in 3 should be running today. International business travellers should be moderately affected, as 3 out of 4 trains are expected to run on these routes to and from neighbouring countries. Traffic is almost normal on...

Business travellers were dreading April, but it didn't take long for the disruption to make itself felt. Unsurprisingly, rail transport is the hardest hit on 3 April, with the start of the famous "slowdown strike" at the SNCF. An average of one TER out of 5 is expected to be disrupted, both in...

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...

Brittany and the French overseas departments have never been so close. Travel between these two parts of the world will be easier from 6 March thanks to the TGV Air offer. Air France customers living near Rennes will be able to take advantage of train-plane tickets to Fort-de-France, Point-à-Pitre, Cayenne and Saint-Denis. This offer is in line with the...

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...

SNCF's high-speed rail services picked up again in 2017, with a gain of 8 million passengers by the end of October, including 6 million for the classic TGV and 2 million for OUIgo. To these figures must be added 1 million more passengers on Intercités trains than last year....

On 7 December, Voyages-scncf.com will switch to its new name of OUI.sncf as part of the harmonisation of the SNCF group's brands, which operate InOUI for the premium TGV service and Ouigo for its low-cost counterpart, Ouibus for coach transport and Ouicar for the car hire service between private individuals. This change will have an impact on the V.Pro tool for business travellers, which will be renamed...

Business travellers were already familiar with V-Pro, the digital toolbox launched almost a year ago by Voyages-sncf.com. Since then, the platform has found its audience by offering a toolbox that centralises most of the needs of mobile professionals, from 1-click booking to expense management. In fact, V-Pro...

The SNCF and AccorHotels are celebrating the 134th anniversary of the Orient Express' first journey between Paris and Constantinople on 4 October 1883 by announcing the relaunch of this legendary brand. The French hotel group will take a 50 % stake in Orient Express, which is currently 100% owned...

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...

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...

The SNCF's new Grand Voyageur lounge at Gare du Nord will open on Thursday 8 June. Now located on the 2nd floor of the building, its entrance is right next to the Relay shop, opposite track 14. As with the recent Eurostar lounge, this 320 m² space has been fitted out...

Guillaume Pepy's argument for changing the name of the TGV offer to InOUI is to be one step ahead in terms of services in preparation for the opening up of mainline services to competition in 2020. The rebranding will take effect from 2 July, when the Summer on InOUI programme begins.

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...

Obviously, not all companies will be interested in the information revealed today by the daily Le Parisien concerning the launch of the Happy Card by the SNCF. But young start-ups and companies with a certain number of employees under the age of 28 may find it of interest...

Three million euros: this is the amount of the investment agreed on 13 October by the SNCF to boost the development of Allocab, the French VTC specialist. Although the two companies have already been working together for three years on the iDCab offering, this new financial windfall should enable Allocab to rapidly reach a new milestone in France...