OREANDA-NEWS. On June 18, 2009 tickets for the Moscow - Paris straight-through coach went on sale at SNCF ticket offices as the Company continues to improve the quality of its passenger services. Until now, tickets were only sold at ticket offices in Russia and Belarus, reported the press-centre of Russian Railways.

Under a bilateral agreement between Russian Railways and SNCF, information about the availability of seats and berths used to be stored in the Russian system, but following the introduction of the new straight-through service, the two companies carried out joint work to make the ticket systems of the two countries compatible.