The private high-speed operator iryo, owned by Trenitalia partners Air Nostrum and Globalvia, announced this Friday that from December 15 it will operate a new transversal route connecting the cities of Barcelona and Malaga. It is the company’s second connection linking the northwest with the south of Spain, joining the route between Barcelona and Seville, available from 2023.
With two frequencies a day – one way and one return – seven days a week, the route will have stops in Zaragoza, Madrid (20 minutes) and CórdobaThe number of seats that iryo will offer per year for this route will be 336,530, connecting both cities in approximately five hours and fifty minutes.
The departure time from the city of Barcelona will be at 11:50 a.m., arriving at 5:42 p.m. in the capital of Malaga, while the Departure from Malaga will take place at 11:35 a.m.arriving in Barcelona at 17:37.
“As we approach two years since we began operations, we continue to work every day with the focus on perfecting the service and adding more and more frequencies to the current offer. Our goal is to have an increasing number of passengers join the train and, after the success of our first transversal route, we are now announcing this new Barcelona-Málaga connection that we hope will have the same reception,” explained iryo’s commercial director, Christian Ley.
Ticket sales open for 2025
The iryo company has also announced that it has already uploaded to its website 70% of tickets for travel throughout 2025 to the cities where it operates. It states that this initiative is part of its commitment to its travellers to offer them the possibility of planning trips and getaways in advance “through flexible tickets without restrictive fares where customers lose their money”. In this sense, all types of changes of date, time, seat and holder are allowed, with or without associated costs depending on the chosen fare.
It is also possible to extend the flexibility of the ‘Infinita Bistró’ and ‘Singular Only YOU’ rates through the +Open option.
The operator It started operations on November 25, 2022 and connects the cities of Madrid, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Tarragona, Cuenca, Valencia, Alicante, Albacete, Córdoba, Seville and Malaga.
With a fleet of 20 trainsiryo points out that it has designed a travel proposal based on “personalization, comfort and multimodality” with the aim of revolutionizing mobility and attracting more and more travelers to the train.
