Eurostar Goals To Reduce eighty Jobs As Visitors Suffers After Assaults
Eurostar aims to cut 80 jobs as traffic suffers after assaults
Eurostar trains wait at St Pancras worldwide station in London, Britain August 10, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Corridor
PARIS Practice operator Eurostar desires to cut 80 jobs this yr because it struggles with weak traffic on the service that links Britain with continental Europe after a string of lethal attacks in Paris and Brussels, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
The corporate couldn't confirm British media studies saying Eurostar would reduce two daily trains to Paris and one to Brussels when it unveils its 2017 timetables in December, the spokeswoman mentioned.
"Nothing has been finalised yet," she said. "We're looking at all the completely different options."
"However we are providing voluntary redundancies, that is true. We're taking a look at slicing 80 jobs this 12 months," she added.
Eurostar launched new, greater trains final 12 months, with more seats, which suggests the reduced variety of companies might not have an impact on the whole seat capacity between London and the continent, British newspaper the Unbiased stated last week.
In July, the train operator, majority-owned by France's SNCF, reported a 3 p.c drop in passenger numbers within the second quarter in contrast with the identical interval final year, whereas revenue fell 10 %.
Britain's resolution to leave the European Union has also taken its toll, Eurostar has said.
"Within the run up to the EU referendum we skilled a slowdown in business travel and the uncertainty following the vote to leave, mixed with the Brussels terrorist assault, has continued to dampen demand," Chief Government Nicolas Petrovic mentioned in July.
Overseas tourists have avoided France since militant Islamist gunmen killed 130 folks in an assault in Paris final November. In July, an assailant drove a truck into crowds celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday on July 14 in the metropolis of Good, killing 86.
Foreign vacationer arrivals to France might fall 4-5 percent this yr, which might be the steepest decline in 40 years, according to Alliance 46.2, a group representing companies that rely on overseas guests.
(Reporting by Michel Rose; Modifying by Alison Williams)
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