“We have already sold eight million tickets for July and August, that’s 10% more than in 2019, so we are seeing a very strong push,” said the CEO of the railway company on France 2.
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“We are off to a record summer, even beyond 2019”. Faced with this observation, the SNCF will put on sale 500,000 additional places in the trains this summer in order to meet the demand. “record”announced Thursday, June 23, its CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou. “We have already sold eight million tickets for July and August, that’s 10% more than in 2019, so we are seeing a very strong push”he said on France 2.
“We are on our toes, we add oars, we make double compositions with two oars at the same time”he added, welcoming the mobilization of railway workers to ensure the departure of French people on vacation, whom he called on to take the train rather than their car by “citizen concern”.
Note that even if the trains are full on the days of the big departures, “there are places left” outside of these periods, says the manager of the railway company.