Click on the link below, to see AERA’s message to EU officials, recommending a delay to the implementation of the European Entry Exit System (EES) until after the peak of the holiday season in 2026. AERA EES letter – Feb 2026Continue Reading
AERA MEMBERS IN BRUSSELS AERA’s members like to keep up to date first-hand knowledge of international rail developments and services and so for a number of years they have made visits together to the Near Continent by train. In 2025 the association held its Annual General Meeting for the first time on the European mainland...Continue Reading
EPF representatives from the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany recently met senior managers of Eurostar and Thalys in Brussels. These two operators are in the process of merging and are sometimes currently referred to as “New Eurostar”. For more than a decade, AERA has been an associate member of the European Passengers’ Federation...Continue Reading
The Association of European Rail Agents’ Annual General Meeting was convened this year in the enchanting, historic city of Ghent, Belgium—an occasion made possible by the extraordinary generosity and seamless cooperation of Eurostar, SNCB Belgian Railways, Visit Gent, Visit Flanders and Gent Watertoerist—whose collective professionalism, attention to detail and warm, welcoming hospitality played a role...Continue Reading
Just as with road and air travel, whilst the vast majority of journeys go smoothly, occasionally not everything goes according to plan. AERA exists to promote travel by rail, but it also has a duty to hold the train operators to account when things go wrong. Our passenger (a very experienced international rail traveller) reports on...Continue Reading
For 30 years Eurostar has been the fast rail services from England to France, using the Channel Tunnel. But there are still alternatives, one of which is the Newhaven – Dieppe ferry run by DFDS. Indeed this was traditionally the cheapest cross-Channel route from London to Paris. Encouraged by news of a new shuttle bus ...Continue Reading
