Europe 1 with AFP 17:39 pm, March 24, 2023

As it indicated this Friday, the SNCF will extend from Monday a Ouigo Paris-Montpellier to Perpignan. This daily round trip will connect the Gare de Lyon, Paris, Perpignan, in 5 hours 01 each way and 5 hours 18 minutes return, via Valence TGV, Nîmes-Pont du Gard, Montpellier Sud de France, Sète, Agde, Béziers and Narbonne.

The SNCF will extend from Monday a Ouigo Paris-Montpellier to Perpignan, a new step in a policy of extension of its low-cost TGV, it said Friday. This daily round trip will connect the Gare de Lyon, Paris, Perpignan, in 5 hours 01 each way and 5 hours 18 minutes return, via Valence TGV, Nîmes-Pont du Gard, Montpellier Sud de France, Sète, Agde, Béziers and Narbonne.

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SNCF Voyageurs sells tickets from 19 euros. Departure from Paris at 8:23 am for an arrival at the center of the world of Salvador Dali at 13:24, and return at 15:04 to arrive in Paris at 20:22.

More than 110 million trips in ten years

For the CEO of SNCF Voyageurs Christophe Fanichet, the low-cost TGV Ouigo is "a success", with more than 110 million trips in ten years. "Regularly, we add destinations. (...) Our goal is that, in 2025, 25% of our high-speed traffic in France is carried out by Ouigo, against 20% currently," he said in an interview with Les Echos on Friday.

The end of work north of Orleans will also allow, still from Monday, to put back into circulation the tenth daily round trip between Paris and Limoges. "The result is a more balanced distribution of the offer offered throughout the day, as well as additional stops in 8 stations of this line and in each direction," SNCF Voyageurs told AFP.