Overview

• ÖBB confirmed the Berlin–Paris and Paris–Vienna Nightjet routes will stop with the 14 December 2025 timetable change.
• French media reported that annual subsidies worth millions of euros, cited at roughly €10 million, were halted by the Transport Ministry and SNCF.
• SNCF argued it is required to prioritize profitability as a state-owned operator and cannot sustain loss-making routes for symbolic reasons.
• Passenger groups launched petitions and demonstrated at Paris’s Gare de l’Est to oppose the cancellations, drawing tens of thousands of signatures.
• ÖBB will keep other Nightjet services and add 24 new trains, while a daytime Berlin–Paris ICE of about eight hours remains available.