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From August, the health pass will apply to planes, trains and coaches for long journeys
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The announcement made Monday evening by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, took transport operators by surprise.
No one had been taken into the confidence.
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After wearing the mask, here are the railway companies, airlines and companies that offer Macron coaches responsible for monitoring compliance with a new obligation: passengers must either have received two doses of vaccine for at least two weeks, either present a negative PCR test of less than 48 hours or a positive test attesting to the recovery from Covid-19.
This Tuesday, there is some confusion in the groups responsible for applying these new controls. "
SNCF Voyageurs will implement the new health measures announced by the President of the Republic, and will inform travelers of the perimeter of the trains concerned and of the control procedures which will be defined by the Government,
" SNCF cautiously advanced on Monday evening. This morning, the public group specified that the health pass would be required in the TGV and Intercités but not in the TER or Transiliens even if some journeys can exceed an hour.
However, nothing was specified on how to implement these measures. "
For the terms, everything is being worked on at this stage,
" we said cautiously to the SNCF. Several questions remain unanswered: will the checks be systematic or random? Who should check that passengers have the correct Health Pass? Will passengers have to arrive earlier before boarding due to new formalities?
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I do not see the controllers taking care of that because they are not authorized for this kind of operation
, estimates Didier Mathis, secretary general of the railway Unsa.
Rather, it is the role of railway security and law enforcement officers.
”Not to mention that today the SNCF does not have the materials to read the QR Code attesting that the passenger has received his two doses of vaccine.
The same questions are asked at Flixbus which, before raising operational problems, fears the impact of these measures on its commercial performance.
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We have a young clientele, many of whom are not vaccinated
," said Yvan Lefranc-Morin, general manager of this German start-up.
We fear that a lot of people will give up booking a ticket because of these obligations.
The king of long-distance buses, very heavily impacted by the three confinements, did not need this.
Especially in the heart of summer which corresponds to a peak of activity.
