Eurostar has its highest-ever quarterly passenger result, with more than 2.8m customers travelling between the UK and the continent in the second quarter.
This represents a year-on-year increase of 3% in passenger numbers compared with the same period last year (2.8m 2015: 2.7m 2014).
Business travel also went from strength to strength with the uplift in the number of Business Premier passengers reported in the first three months of the year continuing through the second quarter. Business Premier passenger numbers in Q2 2015 rose by 10% compared with the second quarter of last year with an increase reported on both sides of the channel.
Sales revenues for the second quarter rose by 1.5% compared with the previous year (£232m Q2 2015: £229m Q2 2014).
As reported earlier this year, sales revenues in Q1 2015 were impacted by terrorist attacks in Paris and the closure of Eurotunnel following a lorry fire. As a result, overall sales revenues for H1 2015 were down 2% year-on-year. Over the first six months of the year passenger numbers rose by 2% (5.1m H1 2015: 5.0m H1 2014).
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