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5 European organisations call on Member States to uphold, clarify and strengthen Air Passenger Rights โ€” not weaken them

By |May 14th, 2025|

Today, EPF co-signed a statement, jointly with Age Platform Europe, the European Disability Forum (EDF), ECC France and Germany, and BEUC, calling on Member States to clarify, uphold and make more easily enforceable the Air Passenger Rights Regulation, and not diminish key consumer rights. We are very concerned that the current negotiations would roll back important passenger rights.ย 

๐Ÿ“ Extraordinary […]

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EFP at Greece Transportation and Infrastructure Summit

By |May 6th, 2025|

EPFโ€™s chair Josef Schneider represented the passenger at the Greece Transportation and Infrastructure Summit in Athens on 30. April. He participated in the panel discussion ‘Promoting sustainable mobility and safety’, along with Stefanos Agiasoglou (OSY), George Georgiadis (UNECE, Inland Transport Committee), Brian Caulfield (Trinity College Dublin) and Vassiliki Danelli-Myloni (Road Safety Institute ‘Panos Mylonas’).

Josef emphasised that in order to […]

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High-speed rail – Implementation Dialogue

By |April 28th, 2025|

On 15. April, EPF Management Board member Willy Smeulders attended the Implementation Dialogue concerning high-speed rail in Europe, organised by Commissioner Tzitzikostas, which will also serve as an input for the development of the high-speed rail masterplan mentioned in the Commissionerโ€™s mission letter.

Implementation Dialogues are part of the EUโ€™s efforts to engage with companies and stakeholders to support compliance […]

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Florence Intermodal Forum on Ticketing

By |April 25th, 2025|

On 11. April, EPF attended the Florence School of Regulation’s 15th Intermodal Forum, which explored key regulatory and industry challenges in achieving a Single Digital Booking and Ticketing system across Europe.

The European Commission (EC) committed to fostering multimodality in 2020 as part of itsย Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy (SSMS). President Ursula von der Leyen has highlighted in herย Political Guidelines […]

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EPF Annual General Meeting elects two new members to the Management Board

By |April 8th, 2025|

EPF’s Annual General Meeting took place in Luxembourg on 5. April.

โžก๏ธ MEP Tilly Metz (European Greens) was welcomed as a guest and current topics from European transport policy were discussed with her. The focus was on ticketing issues and the EU’s imminent focus on high-speed transport. The participants agreed with Ms Metz that point-to-point transport cannot be considered in […]

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๐Ÿš†๐Ÿ”—โœˆ๏ธ What if air and rail were truly connected?

By |March 31st, 2025|

A new Airโ€“Rail Connectivity Index shows how high-speed rail can triple hub airport connectivity!

๐Ÿ“ Tested with Paris-CDG data,
โœ… +72% connectivity when rail is integrated
๐Ÿ“ˆ 3ร— more hub connectivity with airโ€“rail sync
โœ‚๏ธ Can high-speed rail replace short-haul feeder flights?
๐ŸŒฑ A step toward seamless, sustainable journeys

๐Ÿ“– Read the full paper to explore the potential and the data behind it:
https://lnkd.in/dxe2bypM
๐Ÿ“ก Stay tuned […]

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InclusiveSpaces webinar – Continuing the legacy

By |March 31st, 2025|

๐Ÿš€ ๐‰๐จ๐ข๐ง ๐”๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ง ๐„๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐–๐ž๐›๐ข๐ง๐š๐ซ ๐จ๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐Œ๐จ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ! ๐ŸŒโ™ฟ

We are excited to invite you to a webinar exploring how the InclusiveSpaces project builds upon past research and initiatives to advance accessibility, equity, and digital inclusion in mobility.

We will begin with an overview of the InclusiveSpaces project, setting the stage for how it aims to create more inclusive […]

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UIC Sustainable Tourism Workshop

By |March 25th, 2025|

From 10 to 13 March 2025, UIC for the second time organised a ‘Sustainabilityย Action Week’:ย a highly interactive 4-day event, with a series of workshops and seminars on a broad range of sustainability topics.

EPF took part in the Sustainable Tourism Workshop on 11 March 2025 at Paris. There are two key issues when deciding in favour of public transport for […]

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EPF & STA workshop on Ticketing

By |February 14th, 2025|

On 5. February 2025, EPF and STA – Smart Ticketing Alliance – organised a joint workshop for EPF and STA members, on the topic of National Digital Ticketing schemes.

โ€œDigital Ticketingโ€ in public transport is being organised in more and more countries at national level and offered to passengers as an integrated system. In countries where this is not yet […]

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Flying from Germany to New York? More Choice & Better Rights Than on EU Trains

By |February 4th, 2025|

Joint Press Release โ€“ 04.02.2025
On direct flights between Frankfurt, Germany and New York City, USA, the legacy airline Lufthansa competes with the smaller airline Condor.

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Due to its historical role, Lufthansa also operates feeder flights between other German airports to and from Frankfurt.

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Recently, Lufthansa cancelled the through-ticketing contract between its feeder flights and Condor. As a reaction, the EU Commission […]

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