Overview
- A new fare grid effective January 2 raises the maximum ticket price to €119 on select long and busy routes, up from previous caps of €99 or €109 for trips over four hours.
- Sud Ouest reports the €119 limit can now apply on 76 links, including Paris–Toulon, Paris–Bayonne, Paris–Sète, Lille–Avignon, and Bordeaux–Tourcoing.
- Journalists documented cases where Ouigo costs more than inOui, such as March 1 from Paris to Bayonne where a Ouigo fare was €69 while an earlier inOui train was €52.
- Ouigo says the top price applies only to "super-peak" services during school holidays or long weekends and estimates roughly ten trains carry the maximum fare before full summer bookings open.
- A study cited by media reports average Ouigo fares up 73% in six years compared with about 4% for inOui, even as a two-day sale on January 6–7 offered 300,000 tickets at €19.