According to the Telegraph, with millions stranded in airports across Europe, Eurostar trains are completely booked until Tuesday. The thing is, the 50,000 extra passengers taking the train had to pay £223 for a single ticket from Paris to London, much more than the usual £69 to be charged for the same journey two weeks from now. Taking a car from Britain to France under the Channel costs £147, also triple the size of the price asked for the same service on june 21.
Virgin Trains, which charges a little over 40 pounds for a trip from London to Glasgow, currently sells its tickets starting from £93. And the examples can continue...
"Companies that they to make a quick buck out of people at this time are going to severely damage their long-time reputation. And given the damage that has already been done by being Fat Cats, they should not behave in this way," Vince Cable, treasury spokesman told the source.
As the government is powerless to stop such practices, the companies defend themselves by saying pretty much "this is the way it is."
“We are absolutely not trying to take advantage of the situation. It’s quite simply the fact that the demand has taken our prices to the top of our existing fare structure,” an Eurostar spokeswoman said.
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