Clément Perruche 2:34 p.m., November 19, 2021
The end of year celebrations are fast approaching.
On this occasion, "La France bouge" received Anne Pruvot, the director of e.Voyageurs, the branch of the SNCF which manages ticket reservations.
According to the leader, the tickets are going like hot cakes.
Will we all be able to visit our families at Christmas inexpensively?
La France bouge
received this Friday Anne Pruvot, the general manager of e.Voyageurs, the branch of the SNCF which manages the OUI.sncf reservation site.
The manager was reassuring about the ability of the SNCF to provide normal service during the Christmas holidays despite the millions of reservations.
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On October 6, the SNCF opened for sale TGV tickets for Christmas. “On the opening day of sales, we sold over a million tickets for the Christmas departures,” explained Anne Pruvot. This figure is "that of the pre-Covid years" and is higher than that of 2019: "We feel that the French still want to move and still adore France." Among the favorite destinations of travelers are the large provincial cities: Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Rennes ... 100% of TGVs will be used to serve these destinations.
Regularly criticized for the prices of its tickets, the SNCF puts forward the Avantage card at 49 €, which according to Anne Pruvot it is possible to make profitable in a return trip.
"Whatever happens, you have 30% reduction on your tickets. If the reduced-price tickets are no longer available, you have a commitment to pay, depending on the duration of the journey, a price which is much lower than the full price price", she explains, recalling that it is possible to acquire the card at a lower cost during promotions.
However, SNCF has tightened up the conditions for exchanging and reimbursing its tickets: it is only possible to exchange them on D-3 before departure.