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02/10/2010 AT 07:50
Eurostar releases annual figure for 2009
Eurostar, the high-speed passenger train service that links the UK and mainland Europe, announced its annual figures for the year ended 31 December 2009.
Ticket sales for 2009 totalled a record £675.5 million, an increase of 1.7% on 2008, as Eurostar welcomed 9.2 million travellers throughout the year. The volume of travellers year on year increased by 1.2%.
Eurostar's Brussels route saw the highest growth in 2009. The number of passengers travelling between London and Brussels increased by 6% in 2009, in comparison to 2008, Eurostar's Paris route experienced a 1% increase in the number of travellers.
An upturn in overall sales for 2009 meant that revenue for 2009 increased by 1.7%, this was boosted by a strong leisure sales performance with sales of these tickets up by 15.6% year-on-year. Whilst the economic environment remained challenging throughout the year, the second half of 2009 saw a ‘bottoming-out' in the business market.
These figures include the period of disruption in Eurostar services over the weekend of 18-20 December 2009. In a letter of 17 January, Eurostar apologised unreservedly for the problems that occurred and explained that it has put in place a number of operational and communication improvements to ensure that its trains have greater resilience to extreme winter weather and it is better placed to look after its customers when disruptions do occur.
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