Two daily round trips between Paris and Lyon to begin with, then three and now five.
Trenitalia, which has been challenging the SNCF in France since mid-December 2021, is gaining momentum with its red TGVs.
The demand is there: at the end of May, the historic Italian company had already transported 280,000 passengers in its Frecciarossa on this route.
And the SNCF has nothing to complain about.
“
We haven't lost any customers on our Paris-Lyon TGVs
,” says Christophe Fanichet, CEO of SNCF Voyageurs.
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More passengers taking the train via two operators who are rubbing their hands, what better advertisement for the opening of French rail to competition, set to music in mid-2018 by the law on the railway pact?
However, Trenitalia is a bit like the tree that hides the forest.
With the end of the SNCF monopoly, we expected to see a flood of alternative operators.
In the end, they didn't come.
In any case, not in large numbers.
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