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Repeated strikes, stratospheric ticket prices: the SNCF makes profits but irritates the French

2024-02-28T17:14:57.581Z

Highlights: The SNCF made a profit of 1.3 billion euros last year. The public group is in the green for the third consecutive year. But the French have good reasons to no longer have Chimène's eyes on the historic railway operator. Repeated strikes during the holidays, stratospheric ticket prices, full trains a few hours after sales opened… The French have always played “Je t'aime moi non plus” with the SNCf. But, today, they have good reason to no long have Chimère's eyes.


DECRYPTION - With a profit of 1.3 billion euros, the public group is in the green for the third consecutive year, in particular thanks to the great shape of the TGV.


Repeated strikes during the holidays, stratospheric ticket prices, full trains a few hours after sales opened… The French have always played “Je t'aime moi non plus” with the SNCF.

But, today, they have good reasons to no longer have Chimène's eyes on the historic railway operator.

The public authorities are telling them that they must take the train rather than the car or the plane to protect the planet.

But taking the TGV is often a way of the cross.

Thus, Xavier, his wife and his two children, will long remember their departure and return from vacation in Queyras in February.

A nightmare because of the social movement of controllers.

As our Paris-Valence TGV was cancelled, we had to travel at night in a BlaBlaCar bus which cost us an extra 100 euros because it was stormed

 ,” he says.

No better way to return to Paris last Friday: the TER Montdauphin-Valence was not running…

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Source: lefigaro

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