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France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland want to expand the night train network. However, if you want to book an international trip with SBB, it takes a lot of time and nerves.
Night trains will be significantly expanded. But customers who want to move within Europe, be it at night or during the day, have a completely different problem: At SBB, buying tickets will remain extremely difficult for the foreseeable future.
Photo: Leandre Duggan (Keystone)
It was, almost, the great lineup. With the exception of Federal President Simonetta Sommaruga, who canceled on short notice, they were all there: German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer, his French and Austrian counterparts, and all the CEOs of the Austrian, German, French and French state railways. Switzerland. At a press conference they announced a new cooperation for the promotion of night trains.
But anyone who wants to travel abroad by train from Switzerland today has completely different problems: buying tickets. Buying tickets on the SBB ordering platform is inconsistent and more complicated than in Germany, France and Austria. Price comparisons over several days for the same routes are only possible to a limited extent at the SBB ticket office. These comparisons are important because savings tickets allow you to travel from A to B with much less money. If you are flexible in terms of time to get the cheap ticket price, you have to laboriously compare prices manually on SBB. Very different with Deutsche Bahn, ÖBB or French SNCF. A price comparison works there without much effort.
