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Eurostar to up timetable as bank holiday weekend spurs recovery

Government
James Chapple
19 August 2021

Eurostar is set to significantly expand its timetable following a recovery in bookings for travel to France, Belgium and the Netherlands as Covid travel restrictions recede sufficiently for people to plan getaways on the continent.

Services to London were said to be delayed by up to 30 minutes

The EU and UK government want more competition on cross-Channel services

The operator will offer five daily London-Paris returns and three daily London-Brussels returns during September and October, with one of the daily Brussels services also running onwards to Rotterdam and Amsterdam.


It comes after Eurostar bookings for travel between the UK and the continent almost doubled (up 98%) during the period from 4 August to 14 August, the period immediately following the UK government’s decision to lift quarantine for fully vaccinated amber list arrivals who were inoculated in the EU.


Previously, the easing of amber list quarantine rules only applied to arrivals fully vaccinated by the NHS in the UK.