Renfe prepares for its final landing in France and next year it plans to expand its presence in the country with a total of 16 AVE trains per day with more than 500 seats each. This will allow the Spanish railway operator to reach 2.7 million seats per year.
This is a milestone for the Spanish company and a turning point in its international growth, which has earned recognition from the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in France (BECC) as the Spanish Company of the year. “”We have come with the intention of staying, offering an increasingly expanded offer, always under the premise of quality. We want travelers in France, both national and visitors, to appreciate Renfe trains and value the level of quality of our offer and be delighted to get on board,” said the president of Renfe, Raúl Blanco, who received this award this Wednesday. in Paris.
The manager confirmed the company’s business objective: get to paris. A journey for which there is no date yet, but it will be next year. The company began operating in France five months ago with trains to Marseille and Lyon and in this time it has transported more than 250,000 passengers, with an average occupancy of 80%.
The Spanish railway operator continues working on its roadmap to become a reference operator in the French market, the first in which it entered alone last summer, when it began operating the Barcelona-Lyon and Madrid-Barcelona-Marseille relations. .
Renfe closes 2023 with four daily AVE services consolidated, which link Spain (Madrid, Zaragoza and Barcelona) with France (Lyon and Marseille), with an offer of 9,000 places per week. The global offer of international AVE services currently connects 16 destinations and has recovered direct train connectivity between the south of France and Spain.