Better not to miss your Eurostar to London these days.
As for months, there is only one daily return trip between Gare du Nord in Paris and Saint-Pancras station, against fifteen before the health crisis.
London-Brussels-London also circulate in small quantities: one per day instead of nine in normal situations.
"
Currently, we have 500 daily customers on the Paris-London, while we usually have 12,000,
" sighs Philippe Corrsez, union delegate for Unsa-rail at Eurostar.
Since the end of March 2020, the company, which had a turnover of 1.1 billion euros in 2019, has seen its revenues fall by around 95%.
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An untenable situation in the long term.
In January, SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou warned of the very critical situation of his 55% subsidiary.
Since then, despite the vaccination campaign, the business of this company has not improved.
"
We risk not having any more cash during June
", explains
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