OK, so when I go to the SNCF Grandes Lignes ticket office shortly at Paris Nord and ask why I cannot buy a ticket to Berlin any more online, and can they help me, what are they going to tell me why it can't be done?
(Answer 4 is the correct answer - but will I get that? Answer 1 is what I received Monday in Strasbourg, Answer 2 is what I got in response to another ticketing data issue in Breil sur Roya last week)
@jon
I had a conversation with a BLS (swiss railway) travel agent. He told me that SBB is on the same trajectory of reducing international sales on their portal and that they (travel agents) now have to book tickets in many different national systems (SNCF, SBB, DB, ÖBB,...). He half jockingly said that it was easier in the 80s !
(While I work at SBB, I don't know anything about this topic and just summarized what I was told)
@jicka Sort of. The 1990s digital system has broken down - and what comes next is a mess. But SBB has at least still got all of Switzerland’s neighbouring countries included.
@rolandsiegloff oh they'd never do that! Not run by them. (I of course know full well how to do it - and SNCB is not the only way - but that's not the point here really. I want to test if they are honest)
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