Today the European Commission is publishing the #PassengerPackage - legislation to fix railway ticketing
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Here's my take on the #PassengerPackage
"How the gospel - the Political Guidelines - left the European Commission with a ticketing proposal both radical and unworkable"
How the gospel - the Political Guidelines - left the European Commission with a ticketing proposal both radical and unworkable
Ursula von der Leyen called her disciples, the Commissioners, to gather around. Holding up a bound edition of the Political Guidelines, she conferred a great responsibility onto each of them. Beckoning disciple for transport, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, towards her, she gave him his instructions: "cross-border train travel is still too difficult
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
@jon Heresy ! Heresy !
Would it be useful to email our representatives about the issues with the proposal and try to convince them to amend the proposal to multiple tickets pax rights ?
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Here's my take on the #PassengerPackage
"How the gospel - the Political Guidelines - left the European Commission with a ticketing proposal both radical and unworkable"
How the gospel - the Political Guidelines - left the European Commission with a ticketing proposal both radical and unworkable
Ursula von der Leyen called her disciples, the Commissioners, to gather around. Holding up a bound edition of the Political Guidelines, she conferred a great responsibility onto each of them. Beckoning disciple for transport, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, towards her, she gave him his instructions: "cross-border train travel is still too difficult
Jon Worth (jonworth.eu)
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"Our vision is very clear," says Tzitzikostas. "One journey, one ticket!"
If only it were to work like that
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"Our vision is very clear," says Tzitzikostas. "One journey, one ticket!"
If only it were to work like that
Noooooooo, ah what he is saying is not what the Regulation says, not clearly anyway. #PassengerPackage
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Noooooooo, ah what he is saying is not what the Regulation says, not clearly anyway. #PassengerPackage
NJOOOOOOAOOAOOAOOAOO #PassengerPackage
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NJOOOOOOAOOAOOAOOAOO #PassengerPackage
Ah this is such a mess #PassengerPackage
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Ah this is such a mess #PassengerPackage
This is a mess #PassengerPackage
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This is a mess #PassengerPackage
This is not going to work. #PassengerPackage
There is a SINGLE TRANSACTION obligation to get rights - see https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/fc019827-59c9-400f-a530-4d7d21957a7d_en?filename=COM_2026_233_Proposal_on_the_protection_of_passengers_with_single_tickets.pdf
BUT that means that IF you have some ticket already - a Klimaticket for example - and want to add something on to that, you are left without rights
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This is a mess #PassengerPackage
@jon Have you already found a part in which is written that a OSDM purchase might not necessarily considered as a single commercial transaction?
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This is not going to work. #PassengerPackage
There is a SINGLE TRANSACTION obligation to get rights - see https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/fc019827-59c9-400f-a530-4d7d21957a7d_en?filename=COM_2026_233_Proposal_on_the_protection_of_passengers_with_single_tickets.pdf
BUT that means that IF you have some ticket already - a Klimaticket for example - and want to add something on to that, you are left without rights
Basically in this #PassengerPackage the Commission seems to have in mind someone who takes a train once a year on holiday, not people who ever do this even semi regularly.
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This is not going to work. #PassengerPackage
There is a SINGLE TRANSACTION obligation to get rights - see https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/fc019827-59c9-400f-a530-4d7d21957a7d_en?filename=COM_2026_233_Proposal_on_the_protection_of_passengers_with_single_tickets.pdf
BUT that means that IF you have some ticket already - a Klimaticket for example - and want to add something on to that, you are left without rights
@jon Couldn't you just have a 0-cost ticket as part of the full through ticket?
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@jon Have you already found a part in which is written that a OSDM purchase might not necessarily considered as a single commercial transaction?
@wrzlbrnft I think one purchase transaction, purchasing multiple tickets via OSDM, is *included* and covered.
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Basically in this #PassengerPackage the Commission seems to have in mind someone who takes a train once a year on holiday, not people who ever do this even semi regularly.
We're now talking about airlines in the press conference
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Basically in this #PassengerPackage the Commission seems to have in mind someone who takes a train once a year on holiday, not people who ever do this even semi regularly.
@jon SNCF is going to find a loophole to just make it impossible to use the "one ticketing transaction" for their trains nevertheless.
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We're now talking about airlines in the press conference
️ #PassengerPackageThis is a total dog's dinner #PassengerPackage
Regulation PDF: https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/a3284ec0-f1ad-4ee4-a558-5d4c17948046_en?filename=COM_2026_232_Proposal_on_rail_ticketing.pdf
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We're now talking about airlines in the press conference
️ #PassengerPackage@jon If they really want to go this way, they should include long-distance buses too.
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This is a total dog's dinner #PassengerPackage
Regulation PDF: https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/a3284ec0-f1ad-4ee4-a558-5d4c17948046_en?filename=COM_2026_232_Proposal_on_rail_ticketing.pdf
@jon@gruene.social five months? Good luck getting that through lol
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This is a total dog's dinner #PassengerPackage
Regulation PDF: https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/a3284ec0-f1ad-4ee4-a558-5d4c17948046_en?filename=COM_2026_232_Proposal_on_rail_ticketing.pdf
Reminder: this is just the Commission proposal for the #PassengerPackage
It has to go to the EP and the Council from here
There is ZERO CHANCE it's going to not going to be amended!
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Reminder: this is just the Commission proposal for the #PassengerPackage
It has to go to the EP and the Council from here
There is ZERO CHANCE it's going to not going to be amended!
@jon@gruene.social "no additional technical burdens" lololololol
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@jon If they really want to go this way, they should include long-distance buses too.
@wrzlbrnft That might be part covered in the third part of the package (on MDMS)
