Train tickets for Spring Break and May Bridge go on sale on Wednesday

Until May 22, it will be possible to reserve tickets for trips for the TGV Inoui and Intercités, and for Ouigo trains until July 5.

Ready, set, book! In anticipation of the upcoming many bridges and spring holidays, SNCF invites its customers to plan their train journeys on Sunday, January 21. The railway company will sell tickets from Wednesday for trips between March 25 and May 22, for TGV Inoui and Intercités, and for Ouigo trains until July 5, it warned on its website.

After recording new attendance records in 2023, SNCF is facing a shortage of trains to meet the explosion in demand. So, booking as early as possible allows you to “rooms, trains not yet full, with more chances to sit together when you are in a group”, The company explains, recalls that the most visionary “More Choice of Schedules”. Many bridges will be built especially in the month of May.

As for travel prices, they are developed under the practice of “yield management”, which is a sales technique used by the company, whereby ticket prices increase according to demand and the occupancy rate of trains.

Prices stable at Ouigo and Intercités

In December, SNCF group president, Jean-Pierre Ferrandou, confirmed to Franceinfo that ticket prices for the TGV Inoui would increase in 2024, “Not to exceed inflation”. A few days earlier, the then transport minister, Clement Byone, had announced a fare freeze on Oigo and intercity trains in 2024, as well as on the Avantage card.

SNCF will face a further increase in operating costs in 2024, +6% compared to 2023. “The main reason is the rise in toll costs.”SNCF boss mentioned, Also points out the associated costs Infrastructure maintenance and production since the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine. The increase in ticket prices in 2024 for the TGV Inoui is also due to the investment of SNCF, which “100 TGV trains ordered which will arrive from 2025”, Jean-Pierre Ferrandeau reported. The aim is to increase the capacity of the most popular trains.