Eurostar was seriously damaged by the pandemic and Brexit

The carrier's trains, which run during the pandemic, are only ten percent full.

The head of the French state railway company SNCF is worried about the future of the railway carrier Eurostar, which connects Great Britain with continental Europe and was seriously damaged by the cessation of travel during the pandemic and the impact of Brexit. Jean-Pierre Farandou, CEO of SNCF, which owns 55 percent of Eurostar, told France Inter on Tuesday that "the situation of Eurostar is very critical." The number of rail passengers under the English Channel, which connects the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, has fallen by 95 per cent since March and is currently expected to be less than one per cent of the pre-pandemic level. Farandou noted that “Today there are only one pair of trains between London and Paris and another on the London-Brussels-Amsterdam route. And these trains are 10 percent full."