Mastodawn

Oida, International (via B-Europe obviously) offers the discount type "100% discount Luxembourg (CFL)". Great. That's what I'd actually need for international TGVs to and from Luxembourg, along with SNCF Carte Liberté. Sounds good. Both selectable, both applied.

Guess who fails at calculating the right fares ? Yeah, for sure 100 % discount is *not* applied to the price in first class. Oida, why do you even offer this ?

And why for hell is Deutsche Bahn as always better at selling foreign tickets than the involved railways on their own.

* walks to Reisezentrum ...

Idiots. Idiots. Cross border ticketing is something they simply don't care about.

#CrossBorderRail #CrossBorderFail

Also how the fuck can fail at selling a ticket from Metz to Bettembourg in TER, second class ????

Regular fare is EUR 9.50, if I search for a ticket with Carte fluo jeune and Carte Liberté/Avantage the idiots insist on selling me an Avantage fare with 25 % discount rather than carte fluo fare with 50 % discount because it's an international train. Joking ? Transport is free of charge on the section abroad, and I'm entitled to fluo 50 % up to border points anyway. I can't believe how much SNCF fails at selling their own tickets.

In any case - DB can sell me the tickets correctly at the vending machines - even in first class. And I'll check if they can sell me the fare up to Bettembourg frontière with 50 % discount and without CFL share in the Reisezentrum later.

Idiots. This railway is just completely dysfunct.

#CrossBorderRail #CrossBorderFail

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Stephan Neuhaus 2d ago

@lewd On the other hand, when I needed to go from Saarbrücken to Zürich on Easter Monday and the usual route via Mannheim was not available, I could buy tickets Saarbrücken - Strasbourg - Mulhouse - Bâle - Zürich only from SBB, not DB. ("Preisauskunft nicht möglich"). Of course I also tried SNCF but I couldn't even find the webpage where they sell you tickets. Apparently, it's not sncf.fr 😀

@sten Yeah, SBB are the best place for that.