SNCF will launch on November 16 with 12 digital tickets from partner airlines that will allow the direct combination of TGV and plane trips passing through Paris’s Orly and Roissy airports, the company said on Friday.
The “Train + Air” service offering a double ticket has existed for 28 years and is currently used by 300,000 people a year, but it still requires travelers to pick up a SNCF ticket at the station when getting off the plane.
The new digital ticket system, tested for a year with Air France, puts an end to these limitations.
It includes support for travelers in the event of a train or plane delay, specifies the SNCF.
Goal: 600,000 combined admissions in 5 years
The combined ticket went on sale quietly at the end of July.
“We wanted to be sure it worked. And it worked,” a SNCF spokeswoman told AFP.
The companies associated with the SNCF are Air France, which contributes half of the passengers, Air Austral, Air Caraïbes, Air Tahiti Nui, Air Transat, Corsair, Emirates, Etihad, French Bee, Qatar Airways, Royal Jordanian and Vietnam Airlines. “We have many other companies that are interested,” according to the spokesperson.
The ticket is available from 18 French stations, including Lyon, Lille, Nantes, Rennes and Strasbourg, and from Brussels, connected by TGV to Charles-de-Gaulle (Roissy) airport and Orly airport via Massy station – TGV.
“This new reservation process should help increase the number of accessible cities in 2023,” the spokeswoman said.
Some 3 million travelers take the train each year to reach the two Parisian airports, according to the SNCF. Its objective is to sell 600,000 combined “Train + Plane” tickets in five years.
Source: BFM TV
