Ouigo is a play by SNCF to avoid being undercut by a more aggressive low cost operator on the few profitable French lines. If you carefully look at their cost s

Ouigo is a play by SNCF to avoid being undercut by a more aggressive low cost operator on the few profitable French lines. If you carefully look at their cost structure you will see that without the significant boost given to them by their parent company they would probably not be profitable.