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Swedes sour on train travel: survey

Swedes are losing faith in national rail service SJ, according to a survey conducted by Swedish Quality Index (Svenskt kvalitetsindex). Results look better, however, for airlines SAS, Sverigeflyg and Norwegian, as well as for many bus companies.

Swedes sour on train travel: survey

All branches except the rail industry raised their customer satisfaction grade from last year’s results.

Train travelers, however, dropped their rating of Swedish rail service from a 56.6 grade to 53.9, on a grading scale from 0 to 100, where a high grade correlates with a more positive judgment.

SJ’s grade fell from 55.6 to 52.8, and the national rail carrier also found itself at the top of the complaints league.

A quarter of the rail company’s customers have complained directly to SJ, and a fifth say that they have had reason to complain, without having done so.

Johan Parmler, CEO of Swedish Quality Index, suggested to Svenska Dagbladet that last winter’s rail system chaos, with delayed trains and cancelled departure, lies behind SJ’s poor results and many complaints.

“It’s gone so far that the slightest problem with trains is turned into a huge deal. The public already has a negative image of the company,” Parmler told the newspaper.

At the same time as satisfaction with the rail service has dropped, Swedes’ satisfaction with the travel by bus is on the rise, having seen a radical leap upwards from last year’s result of 64.6 to this year’s 71.8.

The company Bus 4 You was the most popular, with the grade 78, while other bus companies, such as Swebus and Go By Bus, all received a grade around 70.

Sverigeflyg had the most satisfied customers in the category domestic airlines, with the grade 73.8, and was closely followed by Malmö Aviation at 73.1. SAS pulled themselves up from last year’s result 61.2 to a grade of 67.6.

For international flights, the airline Norwegian was the most popular at 70.1, while SAS received 68.1.

Ryanair is bottom of the list with the grade 55.

Taxi 020 and Taxi Skåne both receive high grades from their customers. Taxi customers appear to be the most satisfied travelers, having given taxi companies 72.7, the highest overall grade of all sub-industries.

The results of the survey come from responses from 4500 customers who were asked their opinion on travel companies.

Swedish Quality Index regularly conducts surveys on customer satisfaction, and is a part of the European organisation EPSI Rating.

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