Originally Posted by
TonyHe
ridiculous… between Accor or Air France, I don’t know who’s better than the other one ?
You are comparing Djokovic and Federer.
Introduce SNCF into the comparison and you start discovering entirely new dimensions of what "rubbish in design, user friedliness, functionality and execution" can mean. And to comfort their leading position in being totally crap, they even make us the generous gift of spreading their incompetence over several apps. One which gives you timetables, but (i) not always actualised and (ii) you can't buy a ticket for the train whose timetable you found. Another one that gives you current information, but that's by region. And another one to buy the ticket, but for low cost tickets there also is another app, and if you have bought a full fare ticket on this app then you use another yet one to manage your booking. One of them also produces Apple Wallet/Android electronic tickets, but only if you do not have a frequent traveler card, which you could use instead from your Apple Wallet except that the application in some of its updates does not allow for adding the frequent traveler card to be added to Wallet.
Seriously, I love traveling by train, but every time I head how much losses SNCF produces and how much debt they have (more than 60 Billion EUR!!) and then see how many people must be employed to produce this jungle of unnecessary complexity, I can't help thinking that firing half of them would actually make things better. I am scared already now by SNCF wanting to introduce a totally new app in January. Which means we won't have anything functionable before mid-2023.
Off-topic in length of my contribution, but I wanted to throw in another France-based transportation app and point out that while AF and Accor aren't great - and I was the one who started the thread - they are acceptable compared to others.