Will Eurostar derail?
In any case, the cross-Channel railway company is sounding the alarm signal.
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The situation is very critical
", acknowledged Tuesday Jean-Pierre Farandou, CEO of SNCF which owns 55% of this company.
The operator, which provides high-speed connections London-Paris and London-Brussels-Amsterdam, saw its turnover plunge by 82% in 2020 and fall to nearly 200 million euros.
Since April, it has only achieved 5% of its usual sales because of the pandemic.
Today, it only makes two daily round trips (one London-Paris and one London-Brussels-Amsterdam).
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The company could be in suspension of payments at the end of the spring
, warns its general manager, Jacques Damas.
But if ever the crisis were even more severe it could even happen a little earlier.
Suddenly, Eurostar calls for help from the French and British States.
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It would not be abnormal for Eurostar to be helped as the airlines have
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