Eurostar sees advanced bookings double for High Speed 1
More than 110,000 passengers have booked to travel on Eurostar’s High Speed 1 in the first six weeks after launch.
Eurostar claims that in the first two weeks of ticket sales, advance bookings for the period from November 14 to Christmas are more than double the same period last year.
It said demand is coming from both business travellers and leisure passengers.
The first trains from St Pancras to Paris and Brussels on November 14 are sold out, with almost 90% of Standard Class tickets at £59 return.
High Speed 1 will cut journey times by at least 20 minutes, with non-stop times of London-Paris in 2h15m and London-Brussels in 1h51m.
Eurostar chief executive Richard Brown said: “More and more travellers are realising that going by Eurostar avoids airport delays, fuel surcharges, waiting for baggage, and time spent getting to and from out-of-town airports.”
By Bev Fearis
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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