World Economy: Because of competition with the TGV,

Apr 14, 2008

Because of competition with the TGV,

Because of competition with the TGV,
Because of competition with the TGV, the airline will remove, as of April, the regional lines that connect Orly in Rennes or Lyon. One thousand jobs would also disappear in ten years.

AIR FRANCE has the TGV "evil". In April, the airline will halt or nearly services to several provincial cities, departing from Orly, a victim of growing competition of the TGV and low cost, these low-cost airlines. Plus none of its planes will not arise in Rennes.

In Lyon, it is also the end, there will not be a Orly-Lyon in Airbus-318 is designed to ensure the transfer of passengers to the Antilles. As for Avignon, the service stops altogether even though the City of the Popes will have a little grace period until the end of the theatre festival in August. Marseille also happening in the blender with two daily frequencies closed (out of seventeen shuttles currently) this year. And this is just the beginning.

Effort "anticipatory"

Because by 2018, the company already provides for a further decline in its domestic traffic because of the travel time of the TGV, even faster towards Montpellier, Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Toulouse.

This has been indicated by an internal document, revealed yesterday by the daily "Les Echos", and presented on 27 February by the Directorate of Air France to central council. "With the exception of Nice and Corsica, all calls will be impacted," says the document, and whose "Parisien" has taken note.

"TGV" The effect is well known: "under a three-hour trip, he wins every time on the plane," says a specialist in air transport. That's what happens to Air France.

At Strasbourg, the company has calculated that a journey of TGV reduced to one hour fifty from 2015, the share of train pass ... 90% (vs. 70% now). At Bordeaux, it anticipates a drop in traffic of 40% since 2013 with a TGV journey of two hours and forty. But even the most distant destinations will suffer. For Toulouse, which will be linked into four half hours by TGV from 2013 and then in three hours from ten to 2016, the airline expects a loss of half of its shuttles, with traffic down 30% from 2013 and 40% in 2016.

Consequent to this effect rolling: 1000 jobs will disappear in the province where stops are currently 4178 people by 2018. At the direction of Air France, it is true, it also nuance: "There will be no redundancies. Simply, where competition is growing, we have to reorganize. We did this on Strasbourg, anticipating the shock of TGV four years in advance, there you go about eight years in advance, "says his spokesman.

Objective: To avoid a losing battle and unnecessary additional cost. While some unions CGT are on the alert, while others appreciate this "effort rather anticipation" (see below).

It's that every time one of its aircraft "feeling" the tarmac of an airport in the province runs counter to Air France, took crushed between the TGV and low-cost airlines at the expense of staff "ultralight ". Between the salaries of its personnel on the ground, costs of materials, kerosene ... The cost of the "hit" of its planes has increased by 67% between 1997 and 2007. No doubt, after bouté plane outside Lyon twenty years ago, followed by Nantes, the TGV still do damage in the sky french.

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Because of competition with the TGV,

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