Booking your flight and train travel at the same time is possible with Train + Air service. Launched as TGVair in 1995, it enables you to get, for example, an Angers-Vancouver or Nîmes-Bangkok ticket with one search and one booking on the website of SNCF partner airlines. Used by 160,000 travelers annually, this offer is available from twelve airlines: Air France, Air Austral, Air Caraïbes, French Bee, Corsair, Air Tahiti Nui, Air Transat, Royal Jordanian, Vietnam Airlines, Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways. .
Which destinations are served?
Train + plane is offered between two Paris airports (Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly) and 18 regional stations (Angers Saint-Laud, Avignon TGV, Aix-en-Provence TGV, Bordeaux Saint-Jean, Champagne-). Ardenne TGV, Le Mans, Lille-Europe, Lorraine TGV, Lyon Part-Dieu, Marseille Saint-Charles, Montpellier, Nantes, Nîmes, Poitiers, Rennes, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, Strasbourg and Valence TGV), as well as Brussels – Afternoon.
Mail for Orly Airport is at Massy TGV station. Shuttles then reach the Orly terminals in around thirty minutes. In Air France, this transfer by taxi is free of charge. Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, meanwhile, has its own TGV station in Terminal 2; other terminals are served by CDG Val.
What is boarding like?
From November 16, 2022, check-in will be significantly simplified with the introduction of a single digital ticket valid for the entire journey. This new system, which has been tested for a year with Air France, will thus be generalized to other partner companies. Therefore, it will no longer be necessary to collect your SNCF ticket in paper format at the station before or after your flight.
Baggage transfer is not guaranteed in both directions between train and plane. When you arrive at the airport, you must go to your airline’s counter to check your luggage in the locker. And when landing, be careful not to forget to pack your luggage before continuing your train journey.
Missing the first train (if you missed it or decided to take another route to the airport) results in a no-show and may therefore invalidate the plane ticket or even the entire reservation. Similarly, for the return journey, it is necessary to travel by plane for the train ticket to be valid.
If I’m delayed, can I get on the next flight or train for free?
If you miss your flight due to a late train (or vice versa) and you have booked a combined Train + Air ticket, you will be accommodated on the next train or flight for free. If necessary, the air carrier also pays for one night. “Single booking of rail and air contracts. SNCF and the airline must find solutions that allow their customers to secure their connections in the event of a disruption.“recalls Baptiste Lo-Presti, a spokesperson for Air Indemnité, a website that helps air passengers get compensation in the event of delays, cancellations or cancellations. overbooking.
One booking includes other benefits, such as earning points with the airline’s loyalty program (eg Flying Blue on Air France) thanks to rail travel. In addition, travelers who have chosen to fly higher class (La Première or Business on Air France, Madras on Air Caraïbes, etc.) travel in first class on the TGV.
Conversely, travelers who book their train and plane tickets separately have no protection in the event of a missed connection. “If you miss your flight due to train disruptions, the airline is not responsible. The same is true when you miss a train because of a late flight. So you can’t expect a refundBaptiste Lo-Presti continues.
[Initialement publié le 23 juin 2021, cet article a fait l’objet d’une mise à jour.]
Source: Le Figaro
