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Following the success of Ouigo in Spain, SNCF plans to roll out its low-cost concept in Italy by 2026, according to information presented by Le Parisien on 15 March. Called Allegro, this project - which is due to be made official by SNCF shortly - involves operating high-speed trains on the Turin-Milan-Rome-Naples routes...

The launch of the SNCF Connect app in January 2022 was complicated. How would you assess it one year on? Arnaud Coiffard - The year was divided into three phases. The first, for three months, was to iron out any bugs that may have existed so that the platform would be technically stable. The second was...

Updated on 14 March at 6.30pm. The first few days of the week saw traffic return to normal on the Paris metro, although there were still slight disruptions on the RER and Transilien lines. But what will happen on Wednesday 15 March, when a new call for a general strike has been issued by the...

RATP expects a gradual improvement on 8 March and 9 March. However, the Paris metro will continue to experience major disruption on Wednesday. The automatic lines will be spared, with normal traffic on lines 1 and 14 and near-normal traffic on line 4. Almost all other metro lines will be running...

Tuesday 7 March marks a new day of action against pension reform. As a result, further disruption to transport services is expected in France. One flight in five is expected to be cancelled at Paris-CDG on 7 and 8 March. The cancellation rate is expected to reach 30% at Orly, Beauvais, Bordeaux,...

On Friday, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne made official what she described as the "new deal for rail". And she confirmed the figure that had already been circulating for a few hours - and even for several months, in Jean-Pierre Farandou's speech - i.e. 100 billion euros. "We are choosing to give priority to investing in...

The players in the tourism industry are each turning the page on the pandemic at the turn of 2023. Hotel groups have seen revenue per room exceed 2019 levels. Air France-KLM reported fourth-quarter revenues of €7.1bn, "a record level in the group's history...

Rail travel will again be affected on 8 February by a strike against pension reform. SNCF is reporting an average of 2 trains out of 3 for TGV INOUI and OUIGO. The company expects 2 out of 3 trains to be running on the Northern TGV axis...

So it's going to be another complex day for mobile professionals. The strike against pension reform is leading to a new strike action on 7 February. RATP is expecting major traffic disruption on the Paris metro. Almost all lines will be affected on Tuesday, with the exception of lines 1, 14...

The strike on 31 January will result in major traffic disruption at RATP. As is often the case, metro lines 1 and 14 will be the only ones spared, but will be at risk of saturation. On line 1, Reuilly-Diderot, Bastille and Champs-Elysées Clémenceau stations will only be open during rush hour (7.30am-9.30am and...

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...