The ticket sales and number of passengers on trains Eurostar, traveling from London to Paris and Brussels through the Channel Tunnel rose in 2009 despite a train accident in December that left more than 2 thousand passengers “trapped” in the tunnel hours, Air Force forward. Eurostar sales last year increased by 1,7 percent to 675.5 million pounds (774 million), while the number of passengers grew by 1.2 percent to 9.2 million. Earlier this week the company announced it expected to pay compensation amounting to 11 million passengers in the tunnel remained closed because of damage to trains on the weekend before Christmas.From Eurostar note that the crisis has reduced the number of business trips in the first half of last year.
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Once the pilot of British Airways staff was not allowed by the court to strike during the Christmas-New Year today, it was clear that the danger of rebellion was not away with, says BBC. Unite trade unions which belong almost most of the flight personnel the air-company said it is expected that scheduling a new date to be a ballot on whether to initiate a strike or not. This happens after the airline and the unions failed to resolve the problems raised by the cuts and working conditions. From British Airways said that disappointed by the decision of the union, but not surprised, as they are ready to continue talks. Last year the company has accumulated losses of $ 400 million because of the decline in travel due to the recession gripped the global economy.
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