BT4Europe, ECTAA, EU Travel Tech, GBTA and other European travel industry associations have published an open letter to European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans on the looming dilution of the MDMS initiative.
Both undersigned consumer and business organisations encourage the EU to guarantee equal operating conditions for different transport modes in terms of pricing and ticketing – including cross-border (train) traffic – by creating a unified ticketing system via the Commission's Multimodal Digital Mobility Services (MDMS) initiative, for example, for seamless combination of flights and train journeys.
However, the Commission is now lowering its objectives, meaning the outcome will differ little from the current situation. If the original aim was for a passenger arriving from a province by train to Helsinki-Vantaa to be able to combine their connecting train and flight bookings onto a single booking and document, and thus have a seamless travel chain, this would no longer be achieved if the ambitious objectives of the MDMS project are compromised.
An open letter to Vice-President Timmermans is available to read. here.