{"id":185056,"date":"2026-04-22T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/?p=185056"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:25:44","slug":"blablacar-is-shutting-down-its-bus-division-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/2026\/04\/22\/blablacar-is-shutting-down-its-bus-division-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"BlaBlaCar sluit zijn busdivisie in Frankrijk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eind 2026 zal BlaBlaCar zijn activiteiten als busvervoerder in Frankrijk staken. Dit zal resulteren in het verlies van 40 banen van het totale personeelsbestand van 800 werknemers.<\/p>\n

BlaBlaCar, dat ook verschillende bestemmingen in Belgi\u00eb aandoet, blijft echter bustickets verkopen voor onafhankelijke busmaatschappijen.<\/p>\n

Zeer concurrerende markt<\/h4>\n

Volgens BlaBlaCar zijn de busroutes niet winstgevend en is er geen uitzicht op verbetering vanwege een aanhoudend onevenwicht tussen stijgende exploitatiekosten en een zeer concurrerende markt, met het Duitse FlixBus als belangrijkste concurrent. BlaBlaCar Bus en Flixbus zijn goed voor bijna 94% van het Franse verkeer. Maar er is ook hevige concurrentie van de TGV en de goedkope OUIGO-treinen van de SNCF.<\/p>\n

BlaBlaCar werkt met ongeveer 60 onderaannemers maar draagt het financi\u00eble risico. De onderaannemers worden betaald ongeacht de bezettingsgraad van de bussen. De beslissing van BlaBlaCar leidt echter tot grote bezorgdheid onder deze onderaannemers en er wordt gevreesd dat sommige van hen - vaak kleinere regionale familiebedrijven - hier ook onder zullen lijden.<\/p>\n

Binnenkort hogere tarieven?<\/h4>\n

Het punt is dat het langeafstandsvervoer per bus in Frankrijk in 2015 werd gedereguleerd, juist om de concurrentie te bevorderen en de prijzen te drukken. Tot dan toe was langeafstandsvervoer een staatsmonopolie dat voorbehouden was aan de trein.<\/p>\n

Tien jaar later is het resultaat paradoxaal: door de concurrentie zijn de prijzen zo sterk gedaald dat de exploitanten hun activiteiten niet langer kunnen voortzetten. BlaBlaCar Bus is de laatste die ten onder gaat, na verschillende kleinere spelers die in de beginjaren al failliet gingen.<\/p>\n

BlaBlaCar Bus bedient alle grote Franse steden: Parijs, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lille, Rennes, Nantes, Straatsburg en Clermont-Ferrand. Grote luchthavens zijn ook verbonden. De drukste routes zijn Lille-Parijs, Parijs-Rouen en Le Havre-Parijs, maar ook grensoverschrijdende routes zoals Clermont-Ferrand-Lyon en Bordeaux-Grenoble.<\/p>\n

Maar zonder rivaal staat Europees marktleider FlixBus, die nu in feite een monopolie heeft, niet langer onder druk om zijn tarieven laag te houden. Frankrijk heeft wel openbare regionale busnetwerken, maar geen openbare exploitant voor langeafstandsroutes, die aan de vrije markt werden overgelaten.<\/p>\n

Reizigers die hebben geprofiteerd van de prijzenoorlog tussen de twee platformen voor een reis Parijs-Lyon van \u20ac5, kunnen binnenkort te maken krijgen met hogere tarieven, vooral gezien de hogere brandstofprijzen als gevolg van de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. En vooral jongeren zullen de impact voelen van de opschorting van de busdiensten, aangezien twee derde van de BlaBlaCar Bus-klanten jonger is dan 35 jaar.<\/p>\n

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Buskaartjes blijven verkopen<\/h4>\n

BlaBlaCar is wel van plan om buskaartjes te blijven verkopen namens busmaatschappijen, zoals het al doet voor internationale routes. Het bedrijf, dat ook verkoopt treinkaartjes<\/a>, \u201cwil zijn rol als marktplaats in Frankrijk versterken door onafhankelijke buspartners te ondersteunen die routes willen exploiteren.\u201d<\/p>\n

Het management zal de plannen bespreken met werknemersvertegenwoordigers. Voorlopig verandert er niets en blijft de busdienst gegarandeerd.<\/p>\n

Ten minste 12 routes in Belgi\u00eb<\/h4>\n

Het Franse bedrijf begon oorspronkelijk als een carpoolplatform, maar na de overname van het verlieslatende Ouibus van de Franse spoorwegmaatschappij SNCF werd BlaBlaCar in 2019 ook een langeafstandsbusbedrijf dat meer dan 400 bestemmingen in heel Europa aandoet.<\/p>\n

Maar sinds de overname van Ouibus voor \u20ac101 miljoen heeft het bedrijf nooit geld verdiend met deze activiteit, hoewel de inkomsten van de busdivisie vorig jaar \u20ac115 miljoen bedroegen, het dubbele van 2019.<\/p>\n

In Belgi\u00eb kwam BlaBlaCar in 2022 negatief in het nieuws toen een bus van het bedrijf betrokken raakte bij een ernstig verkeersongeval op de E19 in Schoten op weg van Parijs naar Amsterdam. Twee mensen kwamen om het leven en verschillende anderen raakten ernstig gewond. De chauffeur had cannabis gebruikt en was al meerdere keren veroordeeld voor rijden onder invloed.<\/p>\n

De Belgische routes<\/a> - ten minste 12 in totaal - omvatten Brussel-Nantes, Brussel-Marseille, Lyon-Brussel, Utrecht-Brussel en Parijs-Brugge, evenals Keulen-Luik en verschillende routes van Antwerpen naar Polen.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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By the end of 2026, BlaBlaCar will cease its operations as a bus carrier in France. This will result in the loss of 40 jobs of the company’s total workforce of 800 employees. BlaBlaCar, which also serves various destinations in Belgium, will, however, continue to sell bus tickets for independent bus companies. Highly competitive market According to BlaBlaCar, the bus routes are unprofitable, and there is no prospect of improvement due to a persistent imbalance between rising operating costs and a highly competitive market, with German FlixBus as the main competitor. 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