Thello

Thello
legal form	Société par actions simplifiée
founding	2011
Seat	Paris , France
management	Roberto Rinaudo
Number of employees	70
sales	€ 44.6 million (2015)
Branch	passenger traffic
Website	www.thello.com

Thello SAS , based in Paris, is a French rail company owned by Trenitalia . It is the first company to compete in long-distance passenger transport with SNCF after the international long-distance transport market was liberalized in France from 2009. Thello currently operates express trains both day and night between France and Italy.

history

First Thello train in Paris Gare de Lyon on December 11, 2011.

Thello is a French simplified stock corporation (“ Société par actions simplifiée ”). It was founded after the collaboration between SNCF and Trenitalia, which previously operated Artesia trains between Paris and Italy together, had ended. Initially two thirds of the shares were held by Trenitalia and one third by Veolia Transdev .

Thello's night trains have been running daily on the route between Paris - Gare de Lyon and Venice - Santa Lucia since December 11, 2011 with stops in Dijon- Ville, Milan - Central Station , Brescia , Verona , Vicenza and Padua and Venice- Mestre . Cabotage , the transport of national passengers on a section of the international journey, has so far not been permitted by the Autorité de régulation des activités ferroviaires (ARAF), the authority that regulates free competition on the French rail network; Thello therefore does not offer Paris – Dijon / Dijon – Paris tickets.

On December 9, 2012, Thello added a second night connection between France and Italy with Paris-Gare de Lyon- Rome - Termini with stops in Dijon, Bologna and Florence in its offer. In 2012, Thello achieved sales of 30 million euros.

In October 2013 Thello announced the discontinuation of the Paris – Rome connection for December 2013 after only one year of operation. The reason given was, in particular, difficulties in obtaining timetable routes that enable attractive travel times. At the same time, Thello confirmed his wish to offer day train connections between Marseille and Milan from 2014 with stops in Genoa and Nice . In a decision of 9 July 2013, the ARAF had confirmed that the planned connection was compatible with the rules applicable in France for competitive international rail transport offers and that it was not in competition with the TER , which is subsidized by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region with tax revenues - Represent regional trains. Since December 14, 2014, Thello has been offering a train pair between Marseille and Milan as a daily connection, which has been increased by two more train pairs in the section between Nice and Milan since April 12, 2015.

Since the beginning of 2013, the company has had the safety certificate required for traffic on the Belgian rail network. Thello had announced that from 2014 it would compete directly with Thalys on the Paris-Brussels connection. To date, however, these plans have not materialized.

On September 6, 2016, Trenitalia announced that it had taken over the share from Transdev and has therefore been managing the company alone since then.

stretch

Thello EuroCity on the Italian Riviera

route	Operating time	Connections per day
Current lines
Paris - Gare de Lyon ↔ Venezia - Santa Lucia with stops in Dijon , Milan , Brescia , Verona , Vicenza and Padua	since December 11, 2011 (traffic suspended indefinitely since March 2020 as part of the Covid 19 pandemic)	1 pair of trains EuroNight 220/221
( Marseille - Saint-Charles ↔) Nice - Ville ↔ Milano - Centrale with stops in Toulon , Cannes , Nice , Monaco , Sanremo and Genoa	since December 14, 2014	1 pair of trains from Marseille 3 pairs of trains from Nice EuroCity
Former lines
Paris - Gare de Lyon ↔ Roma Termini with stops in Dijon, Lausanne , Brig , Domodossola , Piacenza , Parma , Bologna and Firenze Campo di Marte	December 9, 2012 - December 2013	1 pair of trains EuroNight 206/207

Vehicle material

Thello initially had two trains for the Paris – Venice connection , made up of borrowed passenger coaches from Trenitalia and locomotives from Akiem , SBB in Switzerland and Trenitalia in Italy. The catering offer is operated by LSG Sky Chefs .

Web links

Commons : Thello  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Company details on societe.com (French), accessed on March 8, 2017
2. ↑ 20minutes.fr : Les premiers trains de voyageurs concurrents de la SNCF circuleront dès le 11 decembre. October 6, 2011, accessed October 8, 2011 (French). 
3. ↑ ville-rail-transports.com : Naissance de la première compagnie ferroviaire privée pour les voyageurs. October 6, 2011, accessed October 8, 2011 (French). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Thello premier concurrent de la SNCF vers Venise. (No longer available online.) Le Figaro , October 6, 2011, archived from the original on October 6, 2011 ; Retrieved October 8, 2011 (French). 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.  
5. ↑ A partir du 15 December, arrêt à Milano Centrale au lieu de Milano Lambrate. (No longer available online.) Thello.com , November 21, 2012, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; Retrieved January 14, 2014 (French). 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.  
6. ↑ Cabotage international: le gendarme du rail fixe les règles. (No longer available online.) Mobilicites.com , March 11, 2013, archived from the original on March 25, 2013 ; Retrieved March 11, 2013 (French). 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.  
7. ↑ Thello lance ses trains Paris-Rome le 9 December. (No longer available online.) Mobilicites.com , November 5, 2012, archived from the original on November 15, 2012 ; Retrieved November 22, 2012 (French). 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.  
8. ↑ ^{a b} “La SNCF n'a pas besoin d'être surprotégée”. latribune.fr , February 11, 2013, accessed February 11, 2013 (French). 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Thello stop sa marche sur Rome mais veut titiller la SNCF en Italie et en région PACA. (No longer available online.) Mobilicites.com , October 8, 2013, archived from the original on December 14, 2013 ; Retrieved October 8, 2013 (French). 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.  
10. ↑ ^{a b} Thello pourrait relier Marseille, Nice et Monaco à Gênes et Milan. tourmag.com , July 10, 2013, accessed July 18, 2013 (French). 
11. ^ ^{A b} Day train Marseille-Milan. 2015, accessed April 5, 2015 . 
12. ^ Thello va concurrencer Thalys sur la ligne Bruxelles-Paris. lecho.be , February 23, 2013, accessed on February 24, 2013 (French). 
13. ↑ Thello acquisition to support Trenitalia expansion. Railway Gazette, September 6, 2016, accessed September 8, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Thello: concurrence, acte I. (PDF; 384 kB) (No longer available online.) December 1, 2011, archived from the original on January 3, 2014 ; Retrieved on April 4, 2012 (French). 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.  
15. ↑ businesstravel.fr : Thello vient concurrencer la SNCF le 11 décembre. October 7, 2011, accessed October 13, 2011 (French).