Eurostar 長，指導者s 行方不明になる out on 支払う／賃金 rises

By KARL WEST
Updated: 08:59 BST, 6 January 2010

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Under 圧力 bosses at Eurostar have agreed to forego any 支払う／賃金 rises this year, as the cross-channel rail 操作者 試みる／企てるs to 修理 its 乱打するd 評判 with 顧客s.

Derailed: Hea vy snow brought trains to a 行き詰まり over Christmas

The move mirrors the gesture of British 航空路s 長，指導者 Willie Walsh, who waived his 権利 to a 特別手当 に引き続いて the 悲惨な 開始 of Heathrow's 終点 5 in 2008.

The high-速度(を上げる） rail group was 苦境に陥るd in 危機 in the busy pre-Christmas travel period as 豪雪 on the English and French 味方するs of the channel tunnel brought four of its trains to a 行き詰まり inside the tunnel after water seeped into the 電気の 回路・連盟s.

The 大混乱 left thousands of 乗客s 立ち往生させるd in the 'chunnel' and left many thousands more in the dark about their festive travel 計画（する）s.

Eurostar bosses were ひどく criticised for their slow reaction to the debacle, with French 大統領，／社長 Nicolas Sarkozy 召喚するing chairman Guillaume Pepy, who is also boss of French 明言する／公表する rail 会社／堅い SNCF, to explain what went wrong.

Some Eurostar insiders also questioned whether Nicolas Petrovic, who is soon to step up from 長，指導者 operating officer to become 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある, is up to the 職業.

Petrovic is 予定 to take over the 舵輪／支配 from Briton Richard Brown imminently, with Brown taking over the （議長，司会の）地位，能力 from Pepy, who is standing 負かす／撃墜する.

Eurostar has （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d an 独立した・無所属 review of the debacle, 長，率いるd by former GNER boss Christopher Garnett. Paris is also 行為／行うing its own 調査（する） into the fiasco.

The three-day 停止 that 続いて起こるd could not have come at a worse time for Eurostar after the European Union changed the 支配するs to 許す greater 競争 on the European rail 網状組織 from this month.

産業 sources believe it was a gift for 競争相手 操作者s like Deutsche Bahn and 空気／公表する フラン, which are already 注目する，もくろむing up 適切な時期s to run services through the channel tunnel to create high-速度(を上げる） rail links to Frankfurt, Cologne and Amsterdam.

A Eurostar 広報担当者 確認するd there are 'no 支払う／賃金 rises' planned at the group this year - either for the board or for staff.

However, she 試みる／企てるd to 軽視する the move, 追加するing: 'It was nothing to do with this (Christmas 取り消しs), it was decided long before last week's シナリオ.'