RT by @EEAthina: One journey. One ticket. Full rights for the passengers. 🇪🇺🚆

🙅 No more fragmented tickets or complicated bookings when travelling across Europe. Today I presented, together with EVP @RaffaeleFitto, our new Passenger Package — a clear step forward towards making rail travel in Europe simpler, fairer and truly seamless.

✔️ One ticket across operators and borders
✔️ Full passenger rights from start to end
✔️ Clearer, simpler booking
✔️ A fairer and more open ticketing market

#ConnectingEurope #PassengerPackage
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https://nitter.net/tzitzikostas/status/2054645554546933937#m

As my head has been full of all the #PassengerPackage stuff this week, I have barely had a moment for any other railway news

For tomorrows newsletter I have:
Bullshit meter - ICE-L to Oslo
Good news - FS wins a contract to rebuild a Serbian line
Bad news - the Wunderline re-opening is delayed again

But did anyone have a Very Bad Week I have missed?

That state owned railways trade body CER would not like the #PassengerPackage was to be expected

That they'd be quite so incoherently critical was interesting and worrying too

Time for a course correction, as I explain here 👇
https://jonworth.eu/state-railways-whats-wrong-cers-perplexing-response-to-the-european-commissions-passenger-package/

RT by @Transport_EU: One journey. One ticket. Full rights for the passengers. 🇪🇺🚆

🙅 No more fragmented tickets or complicated bookings when travelling across Europe. Today I presented, together with EVP @RaffaeleFitto, our new Passenger Package — a clear step forward towards making rail travel in Europe simpler, fairer and truly seamless.

✔️ One ticket across operators and borders
✔️ Full passenger rights from start to end
✔️ Clearer, simpler booking
✔️ A fairer and more open ticketing market

#ConnectingEurope #PassengerPackage
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https://nitter.net/tzitzikostas/status/2054645554546933937#m

This one rail ticket / #PassengerPackage stuff in the past 24 hours is for me that weird moment when what I work on everyday temporarily goes mainstream

Some followers of mine stop and think “I wonder what Jon thinks?” while many many more just happily boost the exaggerated Commission line and news stories

I'll be honest, I haven't read the #PassengerPackage, that hasn't stopped me from forming an opinion. 🤣From what I've been reading in my timeline, I will benefit somewhat when I travel for work and somewhat when I travel with the family for holidays. Mostly it should reduce the anxiety of having to deal with some of the consequences of delayed trains. However, not all of them.

I am still concerned about travelling with a group of 2 adults and 3 children, and being stuck in the middle of my journey because of the none-ticketing things that happen. For example, unexpected train cancellations on the last train of the day, and whatever knock on effects that will have on my onward journey the next days. That's not to say I don't do it, it just gives me anxiety

#CrossBorderRail