While the majority of our european neighbours re-open their borders since the 15th of June, the offer proposed by the train operators is very limited, as if the SNCF and its partners had feared a lack of demand.
Thalys : the offering to the kingdom of Belgium, the netherlands and Germany
To Belgium, Thalys offers currently only five round trips daily between and Paris Brussels .
This frequency will be increased to seven to 12 July t, but remains well below the twenty daily flights operated before the crisis.
On these seven back-and-forth, four will Amsterdam, and two up to Dortmund in Germany. IZY, the cheap supply of Thalys to Brussels, previously daily, will not be performed Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. In addition, any seasonal offer from Thalys to Marseille and Bordeaux is suspended until 29 August.
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To Germany, the offer will go crescendo, but will remain shy of one round trip daily from Paris to Frankfurt , it is passed to three links, and will go to four since the July 3. Relations carried out by ICE trains of German, operated in cooperation with the Deutsche Bahn by an entity called Alleo.
On the southern branch serving the Bavarian , three round trips per day will be available from 4 July. But be careful of the trains departing from Paris will not go more up to Munich and stop at Stuttgar t. Finally, there will be a round-trip Frankfurt Marseille daily.
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