The CEO of SNCF since 2019, Jean-Pierre Farandou. (archives) - ROMUALD MEIGNEUX / SIPA

SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou outlined on Saturday the prospect of a state aid plan to support SNCF, which has already cost two billion euros in the health crisis, and plans to cut it of stations, on France Inter. “However, I fear that our balance sheet, our debt is too large (…). The notion of a SNCF aid plan does not seem unreasonable to me, "he said, while warning that" the topic (of employment) is on the table ":" If the recovery is slow and if we produce fewer trains than in the past, it will not be abnormal and illogical to adjust the level of employment to the volume of activity. "

"We are about two billion euros in turnover that we are missing" because of the epidemic, he also said, referring to a "violent shock" accumulating with the billion shortfall in earning suffered during the strike against the pension reform.

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