Eurostar joins Skyteam

[elanshin]

Looks like the first non airline for Skyteam. No details revealed yet about if anything regarding mileage programs. With the direction EU is going, makes sense for them to start integrating more rail services.

SkyTeam

 

[Gold Member]

SkyTeam might need to rename their Alliance to something like “SkyandGroundTeam”. Unless of course Eurostar now has trains that fly? Can’t remember seeing that upsell option upon checkout

 

[SYD]

Seems to be a growing trend. LH has been selling “flights” that are DB trains for years and now DB is a *A partner?

I recall AF having something similar which has led to this closer tie up?

Air-rail alliance - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Will we get Amtrak in OW… Or CountryLink XPTs….

 

[Supersonic Swinger]

Star has had Deutsche Bahn as an intermodal partner for some years now, natural given where the LH group hubs are all located (https://www.staralliance.com/en/intermodal-travel)

Eurostar makes sense for Skyteam given the LHR-CDG-AMS hub triangle which VS, AF and KL form.

OW's European hubs are too distributed on the fringes of the continent (LHR, MAD, HEL) for them to have a natural intermodal partner in Europe which can serve multiple hubs.

 

[SYD]

OW's European hubs are too distributed on the fringes of the continent (LHR, MAD, HEL) for them to have a natural intermodal partner in Europe which can serve multiple hubs.

ES has overtaken France and Germany (and Japan) for HSR networks and they do already do Fly/Train combos.

https://www.iberia.com/es/combined-train-plane-ticket/

So, not entirely off the cards - despite, being on the fringe.