- BT4Europe welcomes the Commission’s proposals as an important contribution to the wider debate on simpler, more connected and more sustainable cross-border mobility across Europe.
Based on our initial assessment, the package contains positive elements alongside areas that will need careful reading.
Stronger passenger rights across multi-operator journeys and the ambition of a single ticket are steps the business travel community has long called for — they matter for traveller experience, duty of care and the shift to more sustainable modes. At the same time, it will be essential to examine how the measures work in practice: whether they deliver genuine, fair access to rail content and data for travellers and the tools they rely on, rather than concentrating distribution in a small number of dominant platforms.
For business travel specifically, the real value lies in being able to compare and combine options across transport modes. We would encourage co-legislators to keep that multimodal ambition firmly in view as the proposals are examined, and to ensure that any new obligations genuinely simplify booking for travellers and the organisations that manage their travel, rather than adding complexity.
We look forward to engaging constructively with policymakers and stakeholders as the proposals are examined by the European Parliament and Member States in the months ahead.
We will also be discussing the package in more detail during our BT4 Europe webinar at 15:00 (CEST) on 26 May, to which all interested stakeholders are warmly invited.
Webinar registration via : https://lnkd.in/eh7p3khr
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