“We are far from a dark week, there will be no week at a stop, but a week as normal as possible”said during an interview at the France-Presse agency (AFP) the CEO of SNCF Travelers, Christophe Fanichet, before a week marked by several calls for strike within the public group.
“Circulation will be normal from Monday 5 to Thursday 8 May on TGV”he said, and most trains will run during the controllers’ strike on May 9, 10 and 11. “If we have to cancel certain trains, we aim to offer each customer to travel on the day scheduled for their destination”A promis Marcus Fanichet.
“Even if we manage to transport everyone, customers may prefer to give up their trip (…). As such, now, all tickets can be exchangeable, reimbursable, at no cost ”on the TGV Inoui like the Ouigo, for the week of May 5 to 11, announced Christophe Fanichet.
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In addition to the promise to transport everyone by train, Christophe Fanichet has signed up for this “Let all customers be warned, before leaving, concerning their return train”, “That is to say to be warned before the start of the bridge on Wednesday for circulation until Sunday, May 11”he detailed.
Each traveler notified individually
According to the management of SNCF Travelers, each client of a TGV, whether their train is maintained or canceled, will be warned individually by email or SMS.
Disruptions in places on certain regional lines or in Ile-de-France are also to be expected. For the circulation of regional trains and in Ile-de-France, the information is communicated the day before at 5 p.m. on the usual canals.
Several categories of staff are called upon to strike on Monday by the CGT-Cheminots and South Rail to claim an increase in remuneration and better anticipation of the schedules, too often modified at the last minute, according to them. For the 8-May bridge, a collective influential of controllers called National ASCT collective (CNA) joined the call for mobilization, giving it a magnitude.
