Black Week in view of the SNCF. It is likely that several strike calls launched by South-Rail and the CGT-CHEMINOTS on the issues of remuneration and organization of work interrupt rail traffic on Monday, with the climax of a controller strike that promises to be particularly followed in the middle of the weekend of the bridge of May 8.
Bad news for SNCF clients who are businesses of the competitors of the National Company. As in each social movement, most of them do not stop communicating on the flight of their reservations, while SNCF users refer to their services.
Flixbus tables at a filling rate of more than 85%
“There have been several weeks that we see the increases in the investigation on our website (..) with an additional investigation more than 30% compared to a comparable period. Therefore, it is significant and this is also seen in the reserves,” explains Charles Bailard, spokesman for Flixbus.
The company specialized in bus trips estimates that it can reach a higher filling rate “on average” during the weekend of May 8. “From Paris, we see quite high figures to Reims, A Normandy … In the south, there is also a strong increase (of reservations) between Bordeaux and Toulouse,” Charles Billiard continues.
In the rails, Treitalia should also extract from the game. “This is the first company that has been established in the French territory to compete with the SNCF. If the attacks of controllers and drivers were confirmed, it would obviously be a gang for trainitalia,” observed at the end of April in BFMTV Arnaud Aymé, specialist in transport to SIA.
An observation confirmed by the first figures. On the Kombo platform, the sales of train tickets on the Paris-Lyon axis had already increased on April 23 for the week of May 5. The sale of tickets for the bus on the same platform also flew 25% on the Paris-Lyon and Paris-Lille axes for May 8.
Blablacar expects “registration figures”
Blablacar’s bus and bus platform also observes “a rise in the investigation” and says he expects “record figures.”
“Blablacar bus reserves for the May 8 bridge tripled in certain axes” such as Paris-Marsella or Paris-Nices, the company underlines, believing that “the trend of bus trips and cars should continue to accelerate in the coming days.”
All combined axes, bus trip reserves have already increased 20% on the platform compared to the same period last year. Blablacar says that it is ready to strengthen its offer if necessary: ”We continue in real time the evolution of reservations to adjust our offer and ensure that each traveler can join their destination, even during a period of strong disturbances,” said Aurélien Gandois, director of Blablacar by bus. The cars could be added in the next few days in the most demanded axes, namely, Paris-Marseyille, Paris-Nice, Paris-Caen, Paris-Nantes, Paris -rennes and Paris Toulouse.
Source: BFM TV
