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Business travellers and, above all, leisure passengers who have decided to take advantage of the 1 May bank holiday to travel by TGV via Gare de Lyon may be in for a bit of a disappointment. SNCF Réseau has just announced the closure of the Paris station for this traditionally busy weekend. No Transilien or TGV trains...

For over a week now, Paris Est SNCF station has had a completely refurbished TGV Inoui lounge to cater for the 14,000 passengers who use it every month. Located opposite the tracks, right in the heart of the station, the Salon Grand Voyageur Le Club TGV Inoui has undergone major work to make it...

SNCF has announced that it is buying 15 additional TGV M trainsets from Alstom for €600 million. The trains will be delivered from 2029 onwards, and are scheduled to operate between the Belgian Brussels-Midi station and major French cities other than Paris (such as Marseille and Lyon). With this contract, SNCF is raising...

Since the end of 2025, Air France and SNCF Voyageurs have enhanced their "Train + Air" service. This service, which has existed for many years, allows passengers to combine air and rail travel on the same reservation. This offer continues to grow. In addition to the TGV INOUI trains, it is now possible to...

The SNCF operates 11 Grand Voyageur lounges in France, which are one of the key elements of its commercial offering for business travellers. They are regularly updated and even extended. This will once again be the case for the Paris lounge at Gare de Lyon, the busiest...

On 8 January, SNCF launched the new Optimum class, which replaces Business 1ère, as well as its Optimum + version on the Paris-Lyon route alone. On this route, the company operates 19 daily round trips on the TGV Inouï, with departures every 30 minutes on the hour...

In order to defuse the inevitable criticism of its high ticket prices, SNCF has announced that the planned fare increase for 2026, averaging 1% for its Inoui and Ouigo TGVs, will be lower than inflation, forecast at 1.3% for the coming year. This increase will take effect from 2 January....

The Normandy Region's elected representatives confirmed their choice of RATP Dev as operator of the Caen hub rail services from July 2027. The RATP group subsidiary will take over from the SNCF on these lines from Caen to Coutances, Saint-Lô, Evreux, Cherbourg, Rouen,...

On the occasion of the announcement of a new stage in the testing of the TGV M, the SNCF has published a new date for the commercial launch of its new-generation train assembled by Alstom. This is now scheduled for 1 July 2026 for the first four test trainsets, after which eight TGVs will be operational...

SNCF is not just focusing on the Mediterranean, one of its most profitable routes. The Atlantic route is also receiving a great deal of attention in the run-up to the expected launch of new rail competitors with Le Train theoretically in 2027 and Velvet in 2028. The national company is preparing for the arrival of these possible challengers by...

Faced with criticism of its high fares and to counter the arrival of competitors on its most profitable lines, SNCF intends to push ahead with the development of Ouigo, its low-cost brand launched in 2013. Ouigo is expected to account for a third of TGV traffic by 2030, thanks to an expected increase of...

A few weeks ago, Renfe withdrew its Avlo low-cost high-speed train service from the Madrid-Barcelona route. The Spanish national rail company immediately replaced these departures with classic AVE high-speed trains, whose more expensive tickets offer greater flexibility and services, as well as...

The countdown is on. SNCF has just opened bookings for its new Optimum class, which business travellers will be able to discover on 8 January 2026 on all trains departing from or arriving in Paris. As a reminder, this class will replace the current Business 1ère, with the new name having less of a "Pro" connotation...

The Bordeaux-Lyon service is back in the spotlight. This time, it's not by conventional train, via Limoges, Montluçon and Roanne, as in the days of the late Railcoop, but by TGV via the Ile-de-France region, at the initiative of the SNCF. The national railway company is reportedly planning this new high-speed line for 2027 to...

Launched last April by SNCF Connect & Tech, Tesmo, the brand dedicated to digital mobility solutions, has now taken its first concrete steps with the creation of Tesmo Business Mobility, a platform designed for companies to manage all their employees' travel-related expenses, from the daily commute to work, and from...

While Transdev has been operating the Marseille-Toulon-Nice line since June, the Southern Region opted on Friday to keep SNCF as operator of the East Provence and Alps lines, following the call for tenders launched in 2024 as part of the opening up of rail competition. Passengers should therefore see no real difference in...

Launched with great fanfare on 11 December 2023 at Paris-Est station in the presence of then Transport Minister Clément Beaune, the Paris-Berlin night train and its Paris-Vienna counterpart will cease services on 14 December when SNCF launches its winter service. Supported by the French government, which...

The SNCF has announced the forthcoming launch of the 3rd edition of the Grands Prix de l'Ecomobilité, a competition launched by the company in 2022 to reward companies and travel agencies that are committed to more eco-responsible travel. Entries can be submitted from 16 October 2025...

The new annual Meetings & Events Barometer from Kactus was presented on Wednesday, the second day of the IFTM event at Porte de Versailles. It provides some answers for companies forced to navigate in a highly unstable environment, both nationally and internationally. The authors of the Kactus barometer...

On 23 September, at the IFTM tourism trade show in Paris Expo, the SNCF unveiled the new premium travel experience it will be offering on board its Inoui TGVs from 8 January. After more than a year's work analysing what the competition has to offer...