My trip Nuits-sous-Ravières to Berlin Südkreuz on Monday is all e-tickets except Strasbourg to Kehl, the #CrossBorderRail section. Just collected the paper ticket at Lyon while passing here.
And yeah, I have a ticket split in Kehl because that’s the only way to get the best price for this connection. Which is also totally logical. Not.
@jon The “layover” bit could (if not already) be a deliberate thing as train stations become more commercial (retail) operations. There could be a growing incentive to “make them wait” a bit. Admittedly, right now it’s probably incompetence, but eventually “evil”.
@jon Wonder if at this price point the ticket actually isn’t a net loss for SNCF and if a “you got tickets on both ends? the connection is on us.” policy would be far more profitable because people would use it more often.
@nblr you’re thinking too logically. The issue here is simply no one thought to fix this (would be my best guess anyway - Saarbrücken to France is exactly the same)
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