{"id":211877,"date":"2025-11-25T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=211877"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:42:21","slug":"avlo-retire-madrid-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/avlo-retire-madrid-barcelona","title":{"rendered":"Avlo withdraws from Madrid-Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Renfe withdrew its Avlo low-cost high-speed trains from the Madrid-Barcelona route. The Spanish national railway company immediately replaced these departures with classic AVE high-speed trains, whose more expensive tickets offer greater flexibility and services, as well as greater comfort in line with the expectations of business customers. This offer is similar to that of the Inoui TGVs in Spain, but now only holds around 46% of the market due to the arrival on this market of Ouigo<\/a> in March 2021 andIryo<\/a> in December 2022, Spain having been a forerunner in opening up its market to competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A route where Renfe held almost 60% of the market<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This decision will reshuffle the cards between the three operators present on the Madrid-Barcelona route, the busiest in Spain with 15 million passengers a year and a market share of 85% in favour of the train. While Avlo had a market share of 12%, passengers looking for low fares should turn a little more to Ouigo, which already has 16% of the market, and even to Iryo, the Trenitalia subsidiary, which has 24%. This should turn the accounts of SNCF's Spanish subsidiary, which has posted cumulative losses of \u20ac150 million in four years, into the black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n