The SNCF Connect application now allows you to buy and validate transport tickets directly with your smartphone from 22 medium-sized city networks such as Angoulême, Annecy, Avignon, Caen and Saint-Nazaire, said SNCF Voyageurs on Wednesday, which says it wants to expand its service in the near future. Action ratio.
This service rolled out with start-up airweb allows you to buy your local transport ticket (single ticket, brochure, package or periodic pass), validate it by scanning a QR code upon boarding and possibly present it to the driver or controller, the company said.
Coming soon new integrated agglomerations
“This new service on the SNCF Connect app is an illustration of our desire to support the French from start to finish on all their journeys,” said Anne Pruvot, Managing Director of SNCF Connect & Tech, the dedicated subsidiary of SNCF Voyageurs. -, promising to “integrate new agglomerations” in the coming weeks.
The offer is currently deployed in Angoulême, Annecy, Arras, Avignon, Beaune, Belfort, Bourgoin-Jallieu, Caen, Cholet, Cognac, Draguignan, Evreux, Guérande, Les Sables d’Olonne, Maubeuge, Menton, Montbéliard, Nevers, Saint- Brieuc, Saint-Lô, Saint-Nazaire and Saintes, according to a press release.
SNCF Connect also offers, for most Android smartphone owners, payment for some of the tickets on the Ile-de-France Mobilités network, including weekly or monthly Navigo subscriptions, bus tickets to airports or the single ticket t+.
“A Caennais can thus book his trip to Paris in TER and buy through SNCF Connect a t+ ticket from the Ile-de-France Mobilités network to travel by metro in Paris, or even an Orlybus or Roissybus ticket if he wishes to reach the airport”, described SNCF Connect & Tech. SNCF Connect, whose launch in January 2022 was marred by numerous errors, claims 1 billion visits in a year, with 520,000 tickets sold every day on average.
Source: BFM TV
