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The SNCF records increased reservations. The company plans to carry 23,000 passengers this summer. However, is she ready to face this summer period?
After a summer of 2022 recordthe SNCF is now recording an increase in reservations of 15%. Some routes are already full, such as a Paris-Nice July 22. When there are places left, the prices go up. In Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), in the maintenance workshops, we make sure before the summer that all the trains are working down to the smallest detail. The crucial point to face the summer is hidden under the train: The air conditioning.
Strategic errors
This maintenance work is essential, because the SNCF wants to avoid breakdowns at all costs to put all its trains, 364, into circulation. This year, Alstom delivered four new TGVs. They will allow 450,000 more passengers to travel. A specialist deplores strategic errors.
Patricia Perennialseconomist for the cabinet Trans-Missionsexplain : “Some trains were too old […]they discarded them. So maybe they could have done a few more years.” The company plans to carry more than 23,000 passengers this summer.