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More trains are great, but whai really needed is a unified, EU-wide booking system. Currently, each operator has their own site, with its own pricing structure
by malermeister 3y ago
More trains are great, but whai really needed is a unified, EU-wide booking system.
Currently, each operator has their own site, with its own pricing structure and sometimes its own loyalty bonuses. Cross-border trains sometimes have dramatically different prices when you buy tickets in the origin vs destination country.
But worst of all, you often can't buy one ticket for complex routes across Europe, as you can with flights. Instead, you're forced to piece it together yourself from individual tickets. The problem with this is that since you haven't bought a ticket from anyone for the entire route, it's your own responsibility if a train is delayed and you miss your connection. Until we fix this, trains will never be a viable option for many trips.
- Symbiote 3y agohttps://www.raileurope.com/ https://www.raileurope.com/ might provide some of this. (I haven't really needed it myself, the longest journeys I've made have only covered two countries at most.)
- 908B64B197 3y ago> EU-wide booking system. Maybe they can achieve what we had in America back in the 60's with SABRE [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Corporation
- malermeister 3y agoSo there's actually Amadeus, which is the biggest provider in that category worldwide, based out of Madrid: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_CRS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_CRS However, train travel isn't really properly integrated as far as I can tell.