SNCF

Between two days of strike action - the one on 19 January and the next expected on 31 January - another source of disruption has been complicating passenger travel since 24 January. In this case, a fire on electrical cables, apparently deliberate. As a result, traffic at Gare de l'Est was...

As expected, the strike on 19 January will make travelling by train, plane and public transport much more difficult. RATP is expecting "very disrupted traffic on the RER and metro", according to the forecasts published on 17 January. Lines 1 and 14 will be the only ones spared by the strike. They will...

The opening up of the French rail system to competition is gathering pace. Following in the footsteps of Trenitalia, the first AVE (Renfe's high-speed train) from Barcelona arrived in Lyon at midday on Monday for a "dry run", a trial run without passengers in preparation for the imminent arrival of the Spanish national rail company...

When they opened their email inboxes this morning, passengers found a message from SNCF inviting them to "go for it" and take advantage of Connect Days and its 150,000 Inoui TGV tickets sold on SNCF Connect from €29 one way to Dunkirk in particular, €35 to Rennes and Nancy, and €49 to...

In 2017, SNCF recorded a profit of €1.5 billion. This year, the national rail carrier broke that record. According to revelations in the daily Le Parisien, SNCF will have made a record profit of €2.2 billion this year. This information is due to be officially confirmed by the rail operator next February, at its annual...

Since Sunday, SNCF has been ramping up its high-speed services between France and Spain, offering two daily round trips on the Inoui TGV between Paris-Gare de Lyon and Barcelona Sants stations from 11 December. Departures are scheduled at 9.38 am and 2.54 pm from the Parisian capital, and at...

From 2 December, business travellers will have to contend with a new strike, this time instigated by train managers. SNCF expects traffic to be severely disrupted, particularly on long-distance trains. In France, according to information released on Wednesday morning, the...

A report in the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore has not gone unnoticed on this side of the Alps: SNCF is planning to move further into Italy, following on from its service to Milan from Paris. From 2026 onwards, it plans to provide services from Paris via Lyon to...

Responding to the government's demands, SNCF this morning presented its fare shield, which aims to limit fare increases to an average of 5% from 10 January on the Inoui and Ouigo TGVs, i.e. below the rate of inflation. "If we had had to apply the 180% increase in the cost of...

After a test phase starting in July 2021, the SNCF is today launching its new "Train + Plane" (ex-TGVAIR) digital ticket in partnership with twelve airlines, including Air France, which has already switched to this solution since last summer and sold 40,000 tickets. The new service is designed to be entirely digital and does not require...

It's a certainty that the SNCF will be announcing increases in its leisure and business fares in the coming weeks, as the rail company faces inflation in certain areas and, above all, soaring energy costs since the start of the war in Ukraine. Faced with this situation, and at a time when rail fares are...

Following Air France's announcement of a massive order for sustainable aviation fuel, another major player in French business travel, the SNCF, is now unveiling a key investment in responsible energy. The rail company has signed its biggest ever contract for the supply of renewable electricity with Reden. The contract covers...

On Monday afternoon, the SNCF released its forecasts for the strike action on 18 October. According to the rail company, business travellers should experience limited disruption on the main routes. There will be little or no impact on international routes, particularly on the Eurostar, Thalys and Lyria networks. SNCF expects...

Europa Park will be able to boost its MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Events) business thanks to the new Inoui TGV stop at Ringsheim/Europa Park station from 11 December onwards on the Paris-Fribourg-en-Brisgau service, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. This means that the theme park will be 2 hours 37 minutes from Paris-Est, 2 hours 19 minutes from...

At a time when the French government is urging French people and businesses to reduce their energy consumption, there are countless companies involved in business travel that are implementing energy-saving plans, particularly in the areas of transport, accommodation and Mice, such as the SNCF, the RATP and the hotel chain...

On the international front, SNCF opened a second route on Friday for its low-cost subsidiary Ouigo Spain between Madrid and Valencia, a year and a half after the route between the Spanish capital and Barcelona (via Zaragoza and Tarragona) was used by three million passengers. The new service is operated by double-decker Euroduplex TGVs...

Following in the footsteps of Alexia Duchêne in 2021, this Thursday Thierry Marx will sign the new TGV Inoui menu, comprising two hot dishes and a cold salad, plus two desserts. On Tuesday evening, at his restaurant school in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, the famous chef, surrounded by his seconds, presented his...

It was the great success of the summer in Germany and will probably be talked about for a long time to come. When the German federal government decided to reduce its citizens' energy bills for three months, one of the key measures was the introduction of a €9 monthly ticket valid on all regional trains...

At the opening of the IFTM-Top Resa tourism trade fair at Paris-Expo, the SNCF gave an update on its leisure and, above all, business activities. The summer was marked by a 10% increase in traffic in July-August compared with 2019, already a record year for the railway company. Some 28 million tickets were sold...

Presented in mid-summer by American Express GBT, the solution for managing unforeseen events during business trips has been enhanced with functions tailored to the French domestic market. While the solution, known as Proactive Traveler Care (PTC), is primarily designed to deal with air travel disruptions by recommending alternative flights, it now includes the means to...