Avantage card becomes less profitable from today

It is probably less aptly named. The SNCF Avantage card becomes less attractive from August 29th. If this card, valid for two years and owned by 4.5 million people in France, still provides access to guaranteed maximum rates with an annual subscription, its ceiling is especially increased.

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Obviously, this Advantage card, which allows for 49 euros per year to take advantage of reduced rates of 30% and a limited limit, provides that 27-59-year-olds can make part of their trip on the weekend, so these ceilings are increasing: from 39 EUR up to EUR 49 for trips of less than 1 hour 30 minutes (about 25% of trips), EUR 69 for trips between 1 hour 30 minutes and 3 hours (50%) and a maximum of EUR 89 for longer trips (25%).

Less profitable

In mid-July, SNCF announced that they were raising the ceilings of the Avantage card.falls within the limit of tariff increases to 5% on average in 2023, which is therefore beyond doubt“. Before the national company specifies that “this does not change anything for all of our customers who do not have this card, or even for the majority of Avantage card beneficiaries, as they pay less than the maximum price in most cases.“.

Specifically, as calculated by France 3, if we take the example of a round-trip Paris-Rennes flight, on weekends and with a departure at the end of August, the trip costs 78 euros with the Avantage card, and 108 euros without. From September 1member, after the upgrade, the same trip will cost €98 without the Avantage card and €90 with it.

The purchase price of the card remains unchanged… and will even be half the price until September 5th.