The president of Renfe, Isaías Táboas, anticipates that “in mid-June” all the Alvia services that existed between Madrid and Galicia will be replaced “in the precovid stage so that the supply returns to the level of the year 2019.
The first step will be for this same line to incorporate next Monday, June 7 Another 10 weekly circulations – it will go from 56 to 66 -, with which these rail services will reach 67.3 percent of the total that existed before the pandemic. To this we must add that on June 14 an additional daily service will be incorporated.
Once the offer on precovid levels has been recovered, the president of Renfe has guaranteed that it will be “maintained”, although “unfortunately not yet” it is expected that user demand is the same again
For the president of Renfe, the recovery of this service and the equalization of the routes with those that existed before the health crisis will contribute “to people can come to Galicia “in a Xacobeo year, which will give “more opportunities” to sectors such as tourism and commerce.
“Renfe has a commitment to Galicia and wants to comply with Galicia”, has stressed, to then advance that the forecast is to “increase the supply” when the AVE is operational, around December.
From then on, the president added, travel times will be “very competitive”, since “the great source market” of tourists that is Madrid will be two and a half hours from Ourense, three and a quarter from Santiago and four hours from A Coruña and Vigo.
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