May TGVs are likely to be stormed this Wednesday. It is today that the SNCF puts its tickets on sale for the months of April and May. However, in 2023, the demand could be even stronger than in previous years.
Firstly, because this year the May holidays (May 1 and 8) fall on a Monday, after two years in which they had logically fallen on a weekend. So because the spring school holidays will also be in this period. For zone C (Paris, Montpellier, Toulouse…), they will run from April 22 to May 9, and for zone B (Marseille, Lille, Nice, Strasbourg…) from April 15 to May 2 . Therefore, the demand for train tickets should be very high.
The opening of sales for next spring concerns the TGV INOUI in France, intercity, certain TERs, but also the TGV INOUI to Brussels, Freiburg and Luxembourg, indicates the SNCF on its website. These are the trains that will run from March 27 to May 31.
Some trains do not open this January 25
On the other hand, “certain trains with origin and destination in Paris (Gares Montparnasse and Massy) traveling to or from the regions of Brittany, Normandy, Centre-Val de Loire, Pays de la Loire, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie will not be open this January 25, 2023 for the weekends of Ascension (18 to 05/21) and Pentecost (26 to 05/29)”, warns the railway company.
What are the sales opening hours?
- TGV INOUI & INTERCITES: Circulation until March 26, 2023
- TGV INOUI Brussels, TGV INOUI Luxembourg-Paris, TGV INOUI Freiburg-Paris: Traffic for the next 4 months
- TGV INOUI to Spain, DB-SNCF in cooperation, TGV Lyria, TGV INOUI France-Italy: Traffic in the next 6 months
- TER: Traffic in the next 3, 4 or 5 months
- OUIGO: Circulation until July 7, 2023
- THALYS (to Belgium, Holland, Germany): Traffic in the next 4 months
- EUROSTAR (to England): Traffic in the next 11 months
rising prices
These sales occur after the average rise of 5% in prices announced by the SNCF since January 10. The railway company suffers the double penalty of inflation: on its energy expenditure (the operator is the first industrial consumer of electricity) and on its other expenses.
By 2023 he has already done his math: “between the explosion in energy prices (+180%) and inflation in other concepts, our costs will increase by 13%”, explained Christophe Fanichet, head of SNCF Voyageurs, in November.
Source: BFM TV
