SNCF has already suffered a shortfall of two billion euros due to the health crisis caused by the Covid-19 epidemic, said Saturday its CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou.
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" We are about two billion euros in turnover that we miss " because of the epidemic, he said on France Inter, referring to a " violent shock " accumulating with the billion shortfall suffered during the strike against pension reform. In March, the railway company suffered a loss of revenue of 700 million euros, then again 1.4 billion in April.
Last month, Jean-Pierre Farandou had warned that the SNCF was going to suffer “ heavy losses ” with this crisis of an unprecedented nature. " Our company will experience a major shock ," he said in a message to railroad workers. The long strike against the pension reform at the start of the year had already cost the public company nearly a billion euros.
