Two weeks later French SNCF single-handedly premiered the Barcelona – Paris route, Renfe counterattacks on the sphere International. The Spanish operator has been on this Friday since December 22. required permissions to suggest Madrid-Marseille and Barcelona-LyonTwo services he did jointly with the Gauls for ten years.
one time French Security Service (EPSF) and European verification, renfe desires to be able to remarket these trips before summer, sources from the rail company reported. Its purpose is to present 14 days trip per linkso 28 in total, liberalization much less developed than the passenger market of the neighboring country, the Spanish market. The first tests of the French infrastructure will begin in 2019. January 16.
With Consolidated Ouigo
SNCF and Renfe Left in December, after several months of negotiations. conflict does not match. French railway managers open Ellipsos, a joint venture of two companies, 10 million Euros per year, that is, 100 million in about 10 years, and that the only service that does not have a deficit is Barcelona-Paris. However, the Spaniards consider the French decision to be “one-sided”.
It was then renfe Avant to Figueres has announced it will keep its prices, despite losing several circulations following a dispute with SNCF, which it accused of severing ties with the company “after the Ouigo high-speed service was consolidated in the Spanish rail market”. , they multiply. The French company “knew that they could work alone and that Renfe still could not: this is a purely strategic decision and economic reasons cannot be invoked”.
Staff education
To be able to start commercial activities in the summer, as Renfe claims driver training (which will last until mid-April) and they say the response staff has already started and will be expanded in the coming weeks. This Operations Management Center To serve these new routes Barcelona.
However, the conflicts between the two rival rail operators are not over yet. In fact, the operator led by Isaías Táboas, they will continue to work Obtaining the Safety Certificate that allows them to roam in France (“SNCF-Ouigo already has to operate in Spain”, they emphasize from Renfe) and thus “new liberalizationFrench State and SNCF announced.