2023-07-16 21:14:58
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted yesterday at 23:14, Updated yesterday at 23:14
The price of SNCF tickets for holders of the Avantage card will increase. dechevm / stock.adobe.com
In detail, tickets capped at 39, 59 and 79 euros will cost from August 29 49, 69 and 89 euros maximum for cardholders.
The SNCF Advantage card allowing access to guaranteed maximum rates against an annual subscription will soon be less generous, the public company announced on Sunday July 16, justifying the measure by the increase in its costs. In force for two years and held by 4.5 million people, the Avantage card allows for 49 euros per year to benefit from reduced rates of 30% and capped, provided that 28-59 year olds carry out part of their weekend trip.
These ceilings were 39 euros for journeys of less than 1 hour 30 minutes (about 25% of journeys), 59 euros for journeys between 1 hour 30 and 3 hours (50%) and 79 euros for longer journeys (25% ). After August 29, they will be increased by 10 euros, thus increasing respectively to 49, 69 and 89 euros maximum. The purchase price of the card remains unchanged, said the SNCF in a statement sent to AFP, confirming information previously communicated to the newspaper Le Parisien/Today in France .
End of a “tariff shield”
The device emerged unscathed from the latest SNCF price increase that came into effect on January 10, which saw main line tickets increase by 5%. The railway company had presented this device as a “tariff shieldagainst a backdrop of a sharp rise in its costs (+13% for the TGV in 2023) induced by inflation and the jump in electricity prices.
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As for the increase in the ceilings of the Avantage card, it “falls within the limitation of the tariff increase to 5% on average in 2023, which is therefore not called into question“, insisted the SNCF this Sunday. She also argued that “this does not change anything for all our customers who do not have this card, nor even for most beneficiaries of the Avantage card because they pay in most cases less than the ceiling price».
This announcement comes less than ten days after the Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune announced that the SNCF was going to offer for this summer tickets at 19 euros for journeys in Intercités, i.e. its main lines excluding TGV, a device financed by the State which subsidizes the Intercités unlike the TGVs. This “popular offer“comes at a time when”we have a lot of debate on train prices“, had noticed the minister.
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