(Boursier.com) — With the easing of travel restrictions in the UK and France and the start of school holidays, many British travelers rushed to take the Channel Tunnel to get to their places of residence. leisure quickly and securely.
Nearly 17,000 cars were transported between Friday 11 and Sunday 13 February aboard the Passenger Shuttles. The traffic observed during this first weekend of the start of the winter holidays once again demonstrates people’s appetite for travelling.
Flexiplus recorded, on Friday February 11, its best performance since the start of the pandemic with 1,551 crossings in the Folkestone-Calais direction, representing more than 20% of daily traffic. This is the 3rd best day for Eurotunnel’s premium passenger service since opening.
The total mobilization of the teams for this first busy weekend of the year made it possible to offer a top-of-the-range travel experience to the nearly 50,000 travelers who crossed.
Passengers benefited from Eurotunnel services such as the Passenger Wallet, which enables digital pre-registration of all persons on board the vehicle by grouping together all travel and identity information in a single barcode.
Yann Leriche, Managing Director of Getlink, declared: “It is thanks to our teams, their commitment and their professionalism, that we have been able to meet the expectations of our customers and succeed in this remarkable collective effort. Eurotunnel has once again shown that it was the preferred means of transport to cross the English Channel.”
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