Joint open letter – Informal EU ministerial meeting of transport and environment ministers

By |April 2nd, 2016|

UITP, Unife, Eurocities, EPF and EMTA have written an open letter concerning the informal EU ministerial meeting of transport and environment ministers to discuss smart green solutions for sustainable transport, to encourage Ministers to look beyond a technical discussion and consider the role of modal shift in the decarbonisation of transport. This will be especially important given the forthcoming […]

Turn objectives into reality – EPF and CER call for concrete policies for modal shift

By |September 9th, 2015|

Today the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) and the European Passenger Federation (EPF) published a common statement on the mid-term review of the White Paper on Transport, calling on the European Commission to swiftly adopt concrete policies to encourage a modal shift to rail and public transport.

CER and EPF also welcomed today’s adoption by the European […]

EPF Statement concerning the Distribution Cost Charge of the Lufthansa Group

By |July 13th, 2015|

The European Passengers’ Federation has been following with great interest the announcement of the Lufthansa Group to redirect its commercial strategy amongst others towards a clear cost differentiation between the booking channels which passengers and travel agents use. The Lufthansa Group will add a “Distribution Cost Charge” (DCC) of EUR 16 for every ticket issued by a booking channel […]