It is a major blow to the hegemony of the SNCF on the French rail.
The Italian public company Trenitalia will put on sale from Monday the tickets of its high-speed trains Paris-Lyon-Turin-Milan, which it will launch on Saturday December 18 against the TGV of the SNCF.
Trenitalia will thus become the first operator to challenge SNCF on the coveted high-speed market in France since the opening of this sector to competition in free access in December 2020. Italian high-speed trains must make two round trips per day, morning and evening, between Paris Gare de Lyon and Milan Centrale, via Lyon Part-Dieu, Chambéry, Modane and Turin.
Paris-Milan from 29 euros
Subsequently, this offer should be supplemented with three daily round trips between Paris and Lyon, the most profitable high-speed connection of the SNCF which brings together 22 classic TGVs and 2 Ouigo per day.
We can thus choose between the “Frecciarossa” (red arrow, a train built by Hitachi Rail and Bombardier Transport) and the TGV between Paris and Lyon.
The Italian company promises tickets from 23 euros in "standard comfort" (equivalent of the second), and from 29 euros in "business comfort" (equivalent of the first).
For Paris-Milan, the first prices will be respectively 29 euros and 36 euros, according to a press release from Trenitalia which does not specify how high the price list goes.
In addition to these two classes, Trenitalia also offers a much more expensive “executive comfort class” and private lounges.
The tickets will be exchangeable at will, and refundable until the departure of the train with a retention of 20%, according to the press release.
2 lines already closed
Unlike the Paris-Milan TGV, the Frecciarossa will take the Italian high-speed line between Milan and Turin and make a detour via Lyon.
It will serve Milan central station, when its French competitor terminates at Porta Garibaldi, another station in the Lombard metropolis.
If these are the first steps of Trenitalia in France on the way of high-speed trains, the Italian company was already present through its subsidiary Thello, renamed from Trenitalia France, which announced at the end of June the closure of the two lines it there. exploited.
Thus, the Paris-Milan-Venice night train, whose circulation had been suspended since the start of the health crisis on March 10, 2020, has not resumed.
The other line, the Marseille-Nice-Milan link, which Thello had been operating since 2014, was shut down on June 29.
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