It took almost two years but What was impossible at first will now be possible: That a low-cost high-speed service like the Avlo de Renfe train will always stop at Zaragoza and Calatayud. This is confirmed by the company itself with intent. repositioning its high-speed offer, both traditional AVE and low cost del Avlo, who was born almost two years ago and is now with Competing with French operator Ouigo and Spanish-Italian Iryo By customers on the Madrid-Barcelona corridor.
This increase in supply will duplicate the existing route grid at both Delicias and the station in Bilbao, it doubles the two circulations per day per direction the former has and quadruples the single frequency per direction the latter offers. Both had at least four trains a day to Madrid and as many to Barcelona. Stopping at all intermediate stops such as Guadalajara, Lérida and Camp de Tarragona. And it is unknown whether the Spanish operator’s plans include increasing the total number of frequencies.
Renfe’s strategy seems clear: he’s determined to turn Avlo into a beast. a “universal” service available to everyone without reserved quotas For the two major cities that dominate the northeast axis of high speed in Spain, Madrid and Barcelona. For this, it will be booked, based on what has happened from the company in the last days. Traditional AVE that retains its capacity to compete with Iryo and Ouigo within the travel time. Thus, this will become a kind of premium service, where the significant advantage of guaranteeing the shortest possible time on the route, at a higher cost for the ticket, is guaranteed. And Avlo will be understood as a service that reaches more cities., by taking a break at all intermediate stations, albeit at the expense of spending more minutes on the journey. And meanwhile, Conquer a client like Zaragoza and Calatayud always needing to increase its high speed offer.
Few details were given about this significant change in the company’s strategy. Just what Raül Blanco, the current president of Renfe, has just made public, who has just surrendered to Isaías Táboas following his sudden dismissal as a result of his mistake on trains assigned to transfer from the CAF to the Asturias and Cantabria line. white left see a revolution in the company’s current offering It will compete with Iryo and Ouigo on the Madrid-Barcelona axis.
Looking to 2024
nobody knows Actual damage from loss of monopoly on the AVE line however, it seems clear that the struggle with Ouigo for lower prices, or the profile of Iryo’s more customer-focused offering for business reasons, are leading them to take a step forward and reposition circulations and programs that would happen anyway. It will be done gradually and it is aimed to be fully implemented by 2024.
But as the company confirms, that progress is now tied to an order that’s been delayed by months: Delivery of 30 new trains ordered from Talgo company. The new model better known as S-106 avril, coincidentally these days in Aragon. The vehicle, still in the testing phase before receiving the units, can be seen parked a few meters from Delicias station in Zaragoza.
The arrival of these new wagons on the lines Renfe wishes to dedicate will allow other units to be released to strengthen or expand the existing offering in other corridors. Maybe some of these are new. avril each day ends by wandering the land of Aragon. But for now, seeing its arrival pass testing bodes well for anything that depends on its release into commercial service. For This so-called revolution in Renfe’s high speed but also for Another broken promise with Aragon: new direct route Teruel– Madrid with one intermediate stop in Zaragoza and without transfers.
Isaías Táboas announced this during his last visit to Teruel last November. It is a movement of railway vehicles, new ones avril They would arrive in Galicia, and the Talgo 730s operating there would be transported to Teruel. to serve this new direct train with the capital of Spain, whose launch date is unknown even today, five months later. Depends on delivery of new units from manufacturercurrently not at Renfe’s will, re-approved from the company.
It’s not even as advertised reorganization of the frequencies and programs of the future Avlo, but at least in Calatayud and Zaragoza, the goal of upgrading to four frequencies per direction per day is already on the table. Meanwhile, rivals Iryo and Ouigo also have the right to change their bids. It is the advantage of the liberalization of the railway market.