Rail team

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Railteam BV

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legal form closed / private limited liability company (BV)
founding July 2, 2007 (in Brussels , Belgium )
Seat Amsterdam , Netherlands
management Director:
Olivier Roy ( SNCF )
Branch traffic
Website www.railteam.eu

The Railteam BV is a closed / private limited liability company (BV) , based in Amsterdam , Netherlands . It acts as an alliance of European rail transport companies in the field of international high-speed transport in Europe based on the model of the aviation alliances and was founded on July 2, 2007 in Brussels .

Members and network

Railteam network
  • Blue lines: Lines of the Railteam network
  • Big points: Railteam hubs

    • There are full members of the Railteam who hold shares in the company, as well as associate members. All the railways involved act as strategic partners within the Railteam network and remain entrepreneurially independent. In this alliance, the high-speed trains ICE , TGV , Eurostar , TGV Lyria , Thalys and Railjet are operated jointly. The transport network of the long-distance trains offered by Railteam comprises around 100 cities in seven countries ( Belgium , Germany , France , Great Britain , the Netherlands , Austria and Switzerland ), which are connected via a network of around 15,000 kilometers.

    The following companies are full members:

    Associate members include:

    • Lyria (subsidiary of SNCF with 74% and SBB with 26%)
    • Alleo (subsidiary of SNCF with 50% and DB with 50%)

    Italy and Denmark are considering joining.

    Multilingual information counters (so-called Railteam Points ) have been set up at its five main hubs in Brussels, Lille, Stuttgart, Cologne and Frankfurt (Main) as well as in Amsterdam and Munich . In Germany there are Railteam Points in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover and Karlsruhe.

    On June 9, 2013, Deutsche Bahn stopped selling Thalys tickets, but reintroduced them on October 1, 2018.

    aims

    The rail alliance pursues three different objectives: On the one hand, competition against cars and air traffic is to be strengthened in favor of the railways. On the other hand, the rail services in international high-speed traffic are to be networked in order to enable customers in Europe to have seamless travel chains from city center to city center and to create uniform service and quality standards. In addition, the distribution of international tickets is to be simplified and improved.

    For this purpose, a joint booking page should be started on the Internet from 2009, on which tickets for all members can be purchased. At the end of 2007, SBB-Informatik was commissioned to develop joint booking software . The system should be based on a joint booking system developed in parallel (so-called Railteam broker ), which is intended to replace the various national booking systems in cross-border traffic. In December 2009 it was announced that the project had been abandoned due to increasing development costs.

    HOTNAT (Hop on the next available train)

    The HOTNAT service (take the next available train) enables travelers to take the next available high-speed train of a Railteam member from the same interchange station as originally planned if the originally planned connection has been missed due to a delay or failure of a previous high-speed train.

    Corporate form

    The Railteam is a corporation under Dutch law, a so-called closed / private company with limited liability (BV) , based in Amsterdam and is similar to a limited liability company (GmbH) in Germany. Any railway company in Europe that meets the alliance criteria can become a member. The organizational structure is a mixture of normal company structure and project structure. The German and French railways each have 25 percent and the remaining five founding members - SBB, NMBS / SNCB, ÖBB, NS-highspeed and Eurostar each have 10 percent in the Railteam alliance. As a result, the two permanent managing directors from the two largest railways in the Railteam and the third managing director are alternately appointed by one of the other railways. Below this level there are five project groups, which are filled by the individual partners depending on the topics and needs and work together in virtual groups.

    Frequent driver programs

    The individual members have set up different programs for their frequent drivers. These are:

    The ÖBB frequent driver program ( ÖBB Club & Bonus ) was discontinued in January 2014. The SBB frequent driver program (MobilBonus) was also discontinued in December 2015.

    As a first step towards standardization, mutual recognition of the frequent driver programs with regard to access to the 36 lounges at the train stations of the member companies was carried out. Since July 1, 2007, holders of a DB BahnCard with bahn.comfort status and holders of an SBB General-Abo 1st class have been able to use the lounges of the companies involved. As a further step, it should be possible to receive points for the individual frequent driver programs also for tickets of the other companies. For example, since December 9, 2007, points can also be credited to DB AG for trips abroad and free travel awards can also be earned for trips abroad.

    See also

    Web links

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ a b About Railteam BV Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
    2. ↑ ABOUT RAILTEAM BV Railteam BV, accessed November 24, 2015 .
    3. ^ Railway Gazette: "Railteam bids to relaunch international rail travel"
    4. ↑ About Tahlys. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
    5. ↑ About us. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
    6. ↑ Articles of Association of June 8, 2007, available in the Commercial Register B of the Saarbrücken District Court under no. 16509
    7. ↑ Deutsche Bahn: Moving People - Connecting Worlds ( Memento of May 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 9.2 MB), Berlin 2008, without ISBN, p. 34
    8. ↑ a b c Railteam expands the service . In: DB Welt , July 2008 edition, p. 7.
    9. ↑ Railteam ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at tgv-europe.com, accessed on May 23, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eurostar.tgv-europe.de
    10. ↑ DB agencies can sell Thalys tickets again. In: FVW. dfv Mediengruppe , October 2, 2018, accessed April 10, 2019 .
    11. ↑ Message SBB should develop Railteam software . In: Swiss Railway Review , January 2008 edition, ISSN  1022-7113 , p. 33
    12. ↑ Euro train booking system shelved , BBC report from November 27, 2009
    13. ↑ http://www.railteam.eu/de/fur-ihre-reise/railteam-servicleistungs/