Railteam

Rail team is an alliance of European railway companies in the field of international high -speed rail in Europe along the lines of airline alliances, was established in July 2007 in Brussels.

Members and network

  • Blue lines: lines of the rail network team
  • Great points: Junctions of Rail Team

There are seven founding members of the Rail teams and three associate members. All the trains involved in acting as a strategic partner within the rail network and team remain entrepreneurial independently. In this alliance, the high-speed trains ICE, TGV, Euro Star, TGV Lyria, Thalys, Fyra and Railjet be operated together. The transport network of long-distance trains offered within Rail team includes around 100 cities in seven countries (Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland ), which are connected by a 15,000 kilometer network.

The members are:

  • German Railways (DB)
  • Euro Star
  • Austrian Federal Railways ( ÖBB)
  • Swiss Federal Railways (SBB )
  • Société nationale des chemins de fer français ( SNCF)
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
  • Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges (SNCB )
  • Alleo ( joint venture between DB and SNCF)
  • Lyria (daughter of SNCF and SBB)
  • Thalys ( subsidiary of SNCF, SNCB and NS)

Italy and Denmark will consider joining.

At their five major hubs in Brussels, Lille, Stuttgart, Cologne and Frankfurt (Main), as well as in Amsterdam and Munich have been created multilingual Tour ( so-called Rail Team Points ). In Germany there are RailTeam points in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover and Karlsruhe.

On June 9, 2013 presented the German railway ticket sales for a Thalys.

Objectives

By Rail Alliance, three different objectives: Firstly, the competition aims to strengthen against cars and air traffic for the benefit of the web. On the other hand, the web offers are to be networked in the international high-speed services to enable customers in Europe seamless travel chains from city center to city center and to establish uniform service and quality standards. In addition, the distribution of international tickets will be simplified and improved.

To this end, a joint booking site on the Internet should be started from 2009, can be purchased on which tickets of all members. With the development of a common booking software end of 2007, the SBB computer science was commissioned. The system should be based on a parallel -developed, common booking system (so-called RailTeam brokers ) that will replace the different national reservation systems in cross-border traffic. In December 2009 it was announced that the project was abandoned due to rising costs of development.

Form of society

The Rail team is a corporation under Dutch law, a so-called BV, based in Amsterdam and is similar to a limited liability company in Germany. Each railway company in Europe that meets the criteria of the alliance can become a member. The organizational structure is a mixture of normal corporate structure and project structure. The German and French railways have 25 percent each and the remaining five founding members - SBB, SNCB, OBB, NS high speed and Euro Star 10 per cent each to the Rail Team Alliance. Thus, the two permanent CEO of the two largest tracks in the rail team and the third manager to be appointed alternately by one of the other lanes. Under this level, there are five project groups that are occupied depending on the subject and needs of the individual partners and work together in virtual groups.

Frequent traveler programs

The individual members have established for their respective frequent drivers differently designed programs. These are:

  • German railway: bahn.comfort (since 2002) and bahn.bonus ( since 2005).
  • Austrian Federal Railways: ÖBB Club & Bonus
  • Swiss Federal Railways: Mobile Bonus
  • SNCF: Grand Voyageur
  • Thalys Thalys TheCard (formerly Cybelys )
  • Euro star: Euro Star frequent traveler program
  • NS Hispeed: NS Business Card

As a first step towards a unification of the mutual recognition of frequent traveler programs was carried out in relation to access to 36 lounges at stations of member firms. Since 1 July 2007, some holders of a DB Bahn Card with bahn.comfort status, an Advantage Card Club and owner of a SBB General SUBSCRIPTION first class may use the lounges of the companies involved. As a further step, it should be possible to get points for each frequent traveler programs for tickets of the other companies. So you can since December 9, 2007 credited abroad for traveling around in the DB AG points and get a free ride premiums also be purchased for trips abroad.

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